Hi Sourav, On 19.07.2001 19:25:13 Sourav Sen wrote: >Hi, > I know that this is perhaps not the right forum for discussing >this question, but sometime back there was a thread that discussed if >multiple NIC s can have same IP address, now I am faced with a similar >situation, and NOT getting answer anywhere, so I'm a bit >desperate and hence posting it here. > > I have a D-Link 1016 100 Mb/s Ethernet switch in which there is >a >facility called "Trunking" by which 4 "physical Links" can be combined >in >a single "logical link" which gets all the bandwidth of the all 4 >physical >links (according to User's Guide it is 800 Mb/s full duplex ). >Now I have configured the switch to have 1 trunking port (4 physical >ports). > > My server has 4 NICs fitted. Each connected to the 4 physical >ports of the trunk. When I assign different IP addresses >to the NICs I could only ping one address from other machines (the one >fitted to the lowest number physical port in the switch). > > The doubt is, shall I have to assign same Ip addresses to all >the >four NIC's? Can that create any disturbance to the other parts of the >network? [...] Think about what you've written above: "facility called "Trunking" by which 4 "physical Links" can be combined in a single "logical link" which gets all the bandwidth of the all 4 physical links (according to User's Guide it is 800 Mb/s full duplex )." Ok you get one logical link! how much ip adresses need this link to work correctly?? one! its like one "400 Mbit" NIC for the Rest of the Network (800 stand for 400 full duplex...........) Thats the theory........ But I don't know if this will work under linux....... Thats a question for the 'kernel profis' and not for kernel newbies like me ;-) hope this will help michael
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