hi, 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 recieve. i guess this should be possible with iptables.
thanks
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Harshal" p.harshal@gmail.com To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 6:02 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] one way connection thru each nic
hi, 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 recieve. i guess this should be possible with iptables.
thanks
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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
Regards,
Komal
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