Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:17:23 -0600 (CST) | From | Mark Spencer <> | Subject | network enhancement |
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<LONG VERSION> Dunno if this can already be done, but this would be cool to do... Imagine if you will a real life scenerio I saw at a company today: Lots of machines on one IP subnet all trying to connect to a single server. The server is on a switch, and the switches are themselves hooked together. Wouldn't it be neat if:
You could put say 5 ethernet cards in the server and put one ether card on each of the switches such that the server still has one IP address, but does ARP on all the interfaces in such a way that it can talk to each machine on the switch it belongs to...
It is, in a sense, an extension of the bridging concept: broadcasts can go out on one interface (the switches will take care of the rest) but other packets should go out on the interface which is on the same switch as the arp that you want to get to... </LONG VERSION>
<CONSISE> The idea would be that if multiple ethernet's share the same IP address that it properly arp's depending upon which interface an incoming request came on and sent arp requests on all interfaces with the shared IP. </CONSISE>
Can it already be done? Is it worth doing?
-Mark
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