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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system? Date: 6 Jan 1997 19:03:03 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5ari97$o01@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <6OBfLaMbNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5aqmnv$m5k@innocence.interface-business.de> <5ar8e1$prf@nike.volvo.se> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5531 peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) wrote: > It depends, > if the goal is anything else then the cheapest possible way of routing > between 2 LAN's, any 'networking device (ie cisco etc)' is better. Well, he didn't even tell anybody what he'd like to do with them, he just asked whether one could put two ethernet cards in a box. Of course, there might be good reasons to buy a dedicated router, but for less loaded networks, there might be as many good reasons (among them the price) to use a PC-based router. (And if all your needs is IP routing between two ethernets, mostly using streaming protocols like TCP, you'll probably have a hard time to find the difference in practical use anyway.) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j