RE: [cobalt-users] Why do cobalts have two ethernets anyhow?

["Michael D. Bathrick" <prez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm about sick as can be with folks like David who can only feel like a
man by putting people down for asking a question.  David, do me a favor
and only reply to people you want to help.  

Josh, there are many reasons you might want to use multiple network
interfaces.  A common one is to isolate a storage network from your wan
network to keep collisions down.  These uses are not typically handled
by the Cobalt interface, but by actually getting your hands dirty in the
OS.  Of course that voids your warranty, but...

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Lucas
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 5:47 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Why do cobalts have two ethernets anyhow?


At 03:25 PM 6/6/2003, you wrote:
>I am curious why (some, eg.xtr, 550) cobalts have two ethernet 
>interfaces. You can alias many ips to a single interface, which is how 
>virtually hosted sites do it.

You can use one for an internal network

>I ask for two reasons. They seem designed to provide ISPs with hardware

>on which to host many sites to be remotely managed. So security would 
>not seem to be the issue. [It's not like a linksys cable router where 
>you can only manage it from your own lan by default.]

I can manage my linksys from outside the internal network.  Can't you?

>They don't seem designed to serve lans in any respect. Most
>of the features if you were using them to run a school or business 
>workgroup, etc. aren't there -- (printing, X, etc.); though some like 
>samba are.
>
>In any case what to do interfaces gain you? Anything with security or 
>ipchains/iptables configurability. Anything with greater throughput? It

>just seems like they are almost designed to have one interface that is 
>hardly used or they stopped developing before they added enough 
>software for it to all make sense.

And maybe you just don't know what you are talking about.
Maybe you should read a little before mouthing off.


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