Does anyone do that thing anymore where you take a  brown paper and breathe 
into it?

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Bill Hecox
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 3:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Multile TCP/IP Stacks

>Is this about the same thing as  multiple network adapters (cards)?


No.  A TCP/IP stack will often use multiple network adapters to the same 
network for load sharing and fault tolerence. 
If one adapter fails the other will continue to operate.

If you have multiple stacks, one for each network, each stack would likely use 
a different network adapter.

To make it more complicated, multiple stacks can share one adapter. In this 
case the adapter would be connected to one network device but each stack could 
use a different VLAN on the network.

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