VLAN interfaces on FreeBSD; performance issues

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Sep 12 09:48:08 PDT 2005


On Sep 12, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote:
>> The essence of multihoming is having two (or more) distinct NICs.
>
> so if i had two vlan's with an ip on both. wouldnt this qualify it as
> multihoming? would i somehow no longer need to configure the  
> computer as
> though it was a multihomed?

I don't fully understand the question you are asking.  If you have  
one physical connection (one NIC, one Cat5 cable), you can only  
connect to a single collision domain, even if you use VLANs (or set  
up IP aliases on different subnets, etc).

-- 
-Chuck


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