On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:05:10AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > It may not be a best practice, but I can't think of anything that > actually breaks - or is even an issue on a small private network - if > you overlay subnets on the same wire. I've seen switches and firewall applicances get confused, plus excessive traffic. > VLANs are a nicer approach but then you need a more expensive switch > and if the Linux box is on a trunk connection you have to find some > elusive documentation about how to configure subinterfaces. I don't see the need. Put in a $20 NIC, tell the Linux box about the second NIC and configure it. Voila! Oh, and a cheap switch for the second LAN if you've more than one device. But if it works in a given environment, hey, that's an engineering solution. -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx 773/550.0929
