Re: VLAN interfaces on FreeBSD; performance issues

From: Chuck Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 09/11/05

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    Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:51:51 -0400
To: aaron.glenn@gmail.com

    Aaron Glenn wrote:
    > On 9/10/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@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
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