[wplug] Binding multiple IP's to a nic card

[Mike Griffin]

I was also assuming high traffic volume across this card, such as a 
gateway, in which the connection would be bogged down. The card would 
become a bottle neck. You also made a very good point, If you take the 
card down, the whole network goes down.
I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't. How about, "In good practice" ?

Mike

On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 12:07  PM, James O'Kane wrote:

> This one time, at band camp, Mike Griffin said:
>
>> you can assign multiple aliases to a NIC, but I suggest only assigning
>> a primary and one secondary, and get another NIC if you need more
>> addresses.
>
>
> Why do you suggest this? I'm not saying it is incorrect. I had 13 IP
> address bound to one NIC for about a year. Probably the biggest problem
> with doing that, is if I need to ifconfig down eth0, they all went 
> down as
> well.
> I recently found out about ebtables and bridging support in linux. 
> Maybe
> that will be a topic of a GUM someday, someday, SOMEDAY!
>
>
> -james
>
>
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