Subject: Re: Multiple NICS under netatalk
From: Thomas Schierle (ts@visual-s.de)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 16:53:33 EDT
I believe it's a bug -- the card which catches a connection first
is used. For a single connection from a Mac, incoming packets
may be handled by ether0, outgoing by ether1.
That may cause trouble, for me connections to my Netatalk box
(Netatalk not configured to use a single NIC, no AppleTalk routing)
have been unstable, especially with multiple simultaneous copies,
until I physically separated both subnets.
NICs in use: SMC EtherPower II, and on old Realtec 8019 (NE2000 mode).
Each NIC running perfectly stable.
-Thomas
On 2001-09-19 19:48 +0200, "Bryn Hughes"<bhughes@vcc.bc.ca> wrote:
> I have a machine running netatalk with 2 ethernet cards. Each of them is
> connected to a different subnet on our system, but both of them are really the
> same number of hops away from most of the computers that use the server. I've
> noticed that connections over TCP/IP seem to go to either NIC. This IS what I
> want, but I was wondering how netatalk decides which NIC to use. Only one of
> them has Appletalk enabled on it, and it seems that half the time I'm
> connecting to that one and half the time I'm connecting to the other one. Is
> there some sort of load balancing going on?
-- Thomas Schierle, Munich, GermanyPGP key [DSS/DH] 0xA23CDA1D available at various public key servers
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