[KLUG Members] One way connection through two NICs

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Mon Sep 26 12:57:06 EDT 2005


>      I've some xeon machines with 2 nics. I want to explore, is it
> possible to use one nic to send data and other to receive. I guess
> this should be possible with iptables.

Maybe, but you'd run into all kinds of ARP madness, and it wouldn't be 
terribly
efficient. What you want is port trunking (or "bonding" in LINUX speak).

http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/bonding.html

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Adam Tauno Williams - http://www.whitemice.org



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