Re: 1 or 2 nic's

[Curtis Brown <shazam pobox com>]

At 03:50 PM 7/29/97 +0800, Lem wrote:
>can anyone tell me if it's better to place 1 or 2 nic's in a host.
>one nic connects to the internet (actually a hub  connected to another
>network which is connected to the internet) and another nic for the
>internal network.

Well, technically, a hub does not seperate networks. If it is really just a
hub, then anything plugged into it is on the same network. But to address
your question, from the information the you have provided, I don't think
you'd want or need to have two NICs. 

The only reason that I can imagine you'd want two NICs if if you were going
to use the box as a router; if you have a serial link to the internet on
one card (or ISDN-TA, or whatever), you'd need an other card for your LAN.

-Curtis <shazam pobox com>

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