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I have this problem, I have 2 Nics installed, I need to use both network cards in the same class C, but the problem that only one network card, is responding. How I could change this to make one Nic to Send all the traffic, and the other nic to Receive all the traffic? Without splitting the network cards into different networks.
Distribution: Trying out SuSE 7.2 ... if i like ill move on
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2 NICs
Well to tell the truth i have the same problem but i think mine
network card is not working ... yast says its not activated but he found it anyway ...
so how do i test network cards ? ... is it possible when the system has not activated them ? in Novell I had some diag. programms if the network adapter could be found.
At the end of the day, you can't have two cards on the same subnet, as it is highly inconsistent with the ieee802.3 ethernet standard, which is way linux will automatically arbitrarily stop one card from working. Windows won't but, in theory, should.
There are things such as bridging which might be able o get around the problem, but thats a deeply hidden kernel option, and i've not tried it.
You can (alledegely) use samba to act as a WINS server tho, to allow network neighborhood to communicate over multi subnets tho.
i'd put my huuuuuuuuuge discusion link up here, but i really can't remember it, try searching if you want a better explanation form me!
should explain as much as i know really. I've no real reason to nkow it's right, but i've learnt a lot about low level architecture, and it does make a lot of sense the mroe i think about it.
so... you MUST have the cards on a different subnet.
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