- Multiple Interfaces on Same Ethernet Broadcast Network
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- Due to the default ARP behavior on Linux, it is not possible to have
- one system on two IP networks in the same Ethernet broadcast domain
- (non-partitioned switch) behave as expected. All Ethernet interfaces
- will respond to IP traffic for any IP address assigned to the system.
- This results in unbalanced receive traffic.
-
- If you have multiple interfaces in a server, either turn on ARP
- filtering by
-
- (1) entering: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter
- (this only works if your kernel's version is higher than 2.4.5), or
-
- (2) installing the interfaces in separate broadcast domains (either
- in different switches or in a switch partitioned to VLANs).
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