Single NIC NAT?

Joseph Mack mack.joseph at epa.gov
Tue Jun 8 17:20:28 BST 2004


Malcolm Turnbull wrote:
> 
> OK I was being an idiot my client subnet had a typo...
> All works fine now...
> Are their any disadvantages to using one NIC ? (apart from not
> segregating broadcast traffic between the two networks.)

reduced bandwidth. With a modern (>400MHZ) CPU and PCI bus, you
can keep two 100Mbps ethernet cards running full bore

Joe

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