Re: 1 or 2 nic's

[Bryan Andregg <bandregg redhat com>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 04:36:16 -0400, Curtis Brown wrote: 

>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. 
>

Not true. You can have as many networks on a hub as you can imagine. What you 
share is the BUS on that hub so all the traffic is bounced off all hosts.

I think your idea of having two NICs as long as they are on physically 
disconnected networks is good. Just make sure that you understand networking 
enough to keep data on the correct network and you have decreased the load and 
increased the security of your setup.


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