Routing and bandwidth problem

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 07:24 5/5/2004, you wrote:
>Aliasing multiple IP's to a nic works in mostt situations but keep in mind if
>they are regular nics, they are also sharing the nics budffer etc, so aside
>from the bandwidth on the cable, you share the nics resources.
>We have one server at work which until recently had 12 virtual IP's, but it
>only servered out medium traffic web sites.

An excellent point,  but in this case approximately 50 users will be using 
this server, and 99% of their use will be passing traffic through it for 
Internet access. 50 users and 512 Kbps of Internet bandwidth on a decent 
machine (HP LPr with P3-500, 512MB, SCSI 9GB) should not stress a NIC.

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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