Re: NIC Selection

From: Jay Daniels (drs_at_pointyhats.com)
Date: 05/01/04

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    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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