OT-hijacked. . .Re: [K12OSN] Solving the bandwidth bottleneck

[Huck]

It was my understanding that switches are "smart".
and know what port requests what and where it's going/coming from...
unlike a hub which just spurts traffic on all ports for the sake of 
spurting =)

--Huck(not a switch expert obviously)


Jim Kronebusch wrote:
>>I have two NICs in a server, one on a public IP and one on a 
>>private one 
>>and they are both connected to the same switch. . . is this really a 
>>problem?
>>
>>Don't seem to be from here. . .
> 
> 
> As far as know this definitely breaks more than a couple networking
> rules :-)
> 
> If it is working I hate to say change it as the general rule is "if it
> ain't broke don't fix it".  But you may want to fix that.
> 
> You should never have 2 networks propogating the same switch.  This
> should cause major slowdowns and collisions, if not more.
> 
>