Re: 1 or 2 nic's

[Richard Lorbieski <richard alpha1 net>]

I would suggest one NIC and use ip_alias and map the second network
address to that NIC. There are very few situations where you need
a second NIC.

Richard

On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, 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.