Chris, I work with iHDTV <http://ihdtv.org>, a project that sends uncompressed high definition television (1.5 Gbps) as UDP over two 1 Gbps interfaces. If both interfaces are on the same subnet, the OS sees the same router (gateway) address on both interfaces, and the results are sub-optimal ... around 50% packet loss. Dave On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Chris Meidinger <cmeidinger@sendmail.com>wrote:
Hi,
This is a pretty moronic question, but I've been searching RFC's on-and-off for a couple of weeks and can't find an answer. So I'm hoping someone here will know it offhand.
I've been looking through RFC's trying to find a clear statement that having two interfaces in the same subnet does not work, but can't find it that statement anywhere.
The OS in this case is Linux. I know it can be done with clever routing and prioritization and such, but this has to do with vanilla config, just setting up two interfaces in one network.
I would be grateful for a pointer to such an RFC statement, assuming it exists.
Thanks!
Chris