Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Multiple network interfaces
From: Osma Ahvenlampi (oa@spray.fi)
Date: Thu Feb 26 1998 - 03:37:29 EST
Jonathan Peterson <jon@amxdigital.com> writes:
> Ethernet (not TCP/IP) is a broadcast technology. If machines A,B,C,D are
> all on one network, then if A sends a file to B, that still uses up the
Ethernet is, but switched Ethernet isn't. If you have two interfaces
in your server, a high-capacity 100Mbit switch, and one interface in
each client, you're essentially allowing two clients to have
simultaneous 100Mbit bandwidth to the server. The server has a total
of 200MBit, with half of it usable for any one client. Well, that's
how it works with TCP/IP based protocols and round-robin DNS,
anyway.
-- When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro. Osma Ahvenlampi <oa@spray.fi>
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