Re: NIC Selection

[Jay Daniels <drs pointyhats com>]

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