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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system? Date: 15 Jan 1997 12:14:43 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5bihnj$bn7@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <6OBfLaMbNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5ar8e1$prf@nike.volvo.se> <5ari97$o01@innocence.interface-business.de> <6OVunZMMNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5b05fe$4aj@innocence.interface-business.de> <6OW5ep16NgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5b6eop$o0h@uriah.heep.sax.de> <6OhJND_6NgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5bddhi$181@innocence.interface-business.de> <6OpOl6n6NgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1893 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5564 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33914 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5145 mschmidt@me-tech.PFM-Mainz.de (Michael Schmidt) wrote: > > Many, since your initial question wasn't clear and didn't mention > > this. I tend to claim that this `load balancing' is fairly > > incompatible with the commonly agreed way IP works. > > It has been a very clear question. I have been asking for running several > networking cards in one system and I got a lot of feedback of friendly > people, it *is* a very clear question. Yep, and the answer to _this_ question is ``yes'', but this didn't help you in the end. You can have a dozen of network cards in a BSD system (but not in a PC, since you'll run out of IRQ lines :). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j