On Friday 27 February 2004 8:42 pm, Dylan wrote:
The only trouble I've ever encountered with dual homed (indeed tripple or more homed) hosts - and all the boxes on my LAN are at least dual homed - the only problems have been:
A- a kernel module for an old isa card which couldn't cope with two identical cards (I figure it wasn't re-entrant, or fell over some other way) but ticks over happily with a diffent second NIC; and
B - IRQ conflicts
Both easy to deal with and hardly a network issue per se!
I've seen some agonized posts in the past here from people who were frustrated by trying to configure two identical ethernet cards in one box. It can be done, I suppose, but it's not necessarily trivial. The IRQ conflicts can be easy or hard to deal with (agreed, not a network issue but an issue nonetheless), depending on luck and knowledge. Paul Abrahams