Re: network setup with multiple ifaces

From: Thomas Maier-Komor (maierkom_at_lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
Date: 04/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:55:21 +0200

Darren Dunham schrieb:
>
>
> What you might do is disable strict multihoming so that the hosts can
> receive packets for the main network on the private interface.
>

how can I disable strict multihoming?

>
> Huh? No, no, no... You may only have two interfaces on the private
> network, but that doesn't make it a "point-to-point interface". That's
> reserved for PPP and other things. This is still just a normal ethernet
> interface. Get rid of the destination stuff.
>

What kind of problems would you expect from this? Currently everything
just works perfectly. Well, it also worked without the destination
parameter, but I thought it might be good to tell the network stack
that this interface has a direct connection to a specific host. But
I don't know if there is any benefit of this...

Maybe anybody can enlighten me what kind of changes are caused by the
ifconfig parameter "destination"?

>
>
> Does the private network work in the first place (the private interfaces
> are pingable?) If you snoop on each interface, do you see the traffic
> go on the correct network?
>

Well, it works just perfectly. If I snoop the interfaces I see what
I expected to see. I also could measure a great performance boost, so
it does what it hope it would do...

Tom

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