VLAN interfaces on FreeBSD; performance issues

[Chuck Swiger]

Aaron Glenn wrote:
> On 9/10/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
>> You cannot truthfully multihome a machine with a single NIC.
> 
> Why not?

Because you cannot put one NIC into two genuinely distinct layer-2 collision 
domains.  Spanning Tree Protocol won't recognize a single NIC as a potential 
connection or loop, depending.

-- 
-Chuck