Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-19 14:35, Dan Ritter wrote: > > So I could drop down to a 2-port NIC, using 3 total and not > > having any spares, but I already have this setup, and it's been > > running nicely since 2014. I spent about $250 on it, including > > some parts I had lying

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-19 14:35, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-19 06:22, Dan Ritter wrote: My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig ethernet card in it, as well as the 1 gig port on the motherboard. Each is completely independent, so I have: - one connection to the

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-19 06:22, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig ethernet > > card in it, as well as the 1 gig port on the motherboard. Each > > is completely independent, so I have: > > > > - one connection to the public Internet

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-19 06:22, Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Sven Hartge
David Christensen wrote: > One feature of link aggregation is increased throughput -- two physical > connections can work together as one logical connection that is twice as > fast. With the caveat that this does not increase the throughput of a single flow. > But the killer feature is

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-19 04:47, mick crane wrote: hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 Yes, and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation One

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Dan Ritter
mick crane wrote: > What is the purpose of remote power switch ? It can turn on and off a set of wall outlets, to which other computers are attached. In other words, if the firewall is running, I can power-cycle several other machines. -dsr-

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> What is the purpose of remote power switch ? Probably to turn on the popcorn machine when you're not at home. Stefan

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-19 15:06, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Mick, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote: I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 There is no

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Mick, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote: > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 There is no strong connection between the

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-19 14:22, Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 12:47 +, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 > connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 > > mick > Yes, but depending on your network

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Dan Ritter
mick crane wrote: > hello, > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig ethernet card in it, as well as the

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 You can even put one connection (aka "port") on

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote: > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. They call them "ports" usually. Such things exist for a long time in a server world, but are infrequent in consumer one. > Can you happily make each

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 1/19/21 2:47 PM, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 > I don't know what the purpose is one network card to have multiple

One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread mick crane
hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31