In article <fa**********@aioe.org>,
Ivan Gotovchits <iv*************@auriga.ru,
cr*****@gmail.comwrote:
>Ian Collins wrote:
>SungHyun Nam wrote:
>>If there are two ethernet device, how I can select a device to
send/receive?
>Asking on a platform specific group would be a good start.
>If there're two diferent NICs, then they will have different IP's (if you\re
talking about TCP/IP).
No, that's merely how it happens on the systems you've encountered.
IP addresses need not be associated with particular NICs -- and
*aren't*, once you get into high-reliability systems which have to
keep going smoothly even when individual NICs fail (or their
network link goes down.)
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