Re: Ethernet NIC dual homing

Laurent Deniel (deniel@worldnet.fr)
Sun, 28 Oct 2001 23:23:33 +0100


Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> > the kernel switches to the second NIC. Such a similar feature exists in
>
> why not user-space?

Good question. The switch could be initiated by a user-space daemon but
the switch itself should be implemented at kernel level for performance
and atomicity reasons (to avoid too many loss of packets) ?
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