NIC Selection
Jay Daniels
drs at pointyhats.com
Sat May 1 02:56:23 UTC 2004
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:04:36AM -0700, alan wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Timothy J. Miller wrote:
>
> > When a system has 2 network cards that are on the same network,
> > how does FC1 select which NIC to use? By that I mean, Mozilla starts up,
> > what causes it to use one card, say eth1 over eth0? Anyone know?
>
> The routing table.
>
> Question: Why are you using two nics on the same network? You can
> generate some very odd network problems doing that. Routing loops can get
> created that will send packets around and around your network until they
> expire from ttl.
Not the same network but...
That's what I thought, but after doing some research it seems you can
even have two default routes or multiple default routes.
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html
jay
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