Using any network interface whatsoever

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Sun Apr 9 18:50:39 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-Apr-09 09:58:19 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>I've actually run into all of these problems on a machine we have at
>work that acts as a gateway to about 10-20 private networks.  It has
>had between 2-4 dual cards and 2-4 quad cards, in various mix and
>match flavors over the years.

We have several machines (for redundancy) that act as gateways into
over 40 private networks.  When there were only 4 networks, we used
multiple NICs but decided this approach wasn't expandable and we now
use VLAN trunks and break out the different networks within the
switches.

-- 
Peter Jeremy


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