Nick Rogness wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
>
> > They can't be in the same collision domain -- the only way to do that
> > is to have an Ethernet repeater which repeats bit by bit fron one
> > segment to another, and propagating a collision on one segment as a
> > jam on another.
> >
> > On a FreeBSD box, where you interfaces to ethernet segments are NIC
> > cards, you can't get your hands on the ethernet frame until the
> > NIC has received it completely. Thus, you don't have to opportunity
> > to act as a repeater (not that you'd want to anyway) to have a
> > single collision domain.
>
> You know, you are right...never thought it
> through completely before I sent my reply. Sorry
> everyone for the wasted bandwidth.
>
> Have 1 more question (has to do with this bridging deal):
>
> Anyone working on load-sharing/load-balancing or clustering
> network solution with FreeBSD?
Eddieware? http://www.eddieware.org/ IIRC.
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