Re: 1 or 2 nic's

[Brice Ruth <ruthbd plato mcas k12 in us>]

To answer the part of your question asking what this is called ... I
believe it is called "multihomed" ... having multiple NICs in a computer
.. :-) 

Hope that helps, maybe to find more info.
Brice Ruth
CS-Major
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology


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.
> 
> 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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