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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system?
Date: 6 Jan 1997 19:03:03 GMT
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peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) wrote:

> It depends,
> if the goal is anything else then the cheapest possible way of routing
> between 2 LAN's, any 'networking device (ie cisco etc)' is better.

Well, he didn't even tell anybody what he'd like to do with them, he
just asked whether one could put two ethernet cards in a box.

Of course, there might be good reasons to buy a dedicated router, but
for less loaded networks, there might be as many good reasons (among
them the price) to use a PC-based router.  (And if all your needs is
IP routing between two ethernets, mostly using streaming protocols
like TCP, you'll probably have a hard time to find the difference in
practical use anyway.)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j