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Re: 2 NIC's in linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mogens Melander)
Sat Aug 24 10:14:33 1996

Date: 	Sat, 24 Aug 1996 15:25:47 +0200
From: Mogens Melander <mogens@frontier.dk>
Reply-To: mogens@frontier.dk
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@miriam.fuller.edu>
CC: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com

Christoph Lameter wrote:
>=20
> Andrew J. Saunders (ajsaunders@[172.16.100.2]) wrote:
> : and my
> : router vendor says it's a problem with the Linux box because it is
> : not as intelligent as his Cisco router, and he would like to sell m=
e
> : another one.  But if it is a problem with the linux box routing, th=
en
> : I should not be able to ping the 206 network because it is on anoth=
er
> : card.  But I can. Hmm
> A salesmen. Linux is much more intelligent than a router and can func=
tion as one.
> I would like to get rid of ours if possible. Could never convince our=
s even to do subnet
> routing. Dont think about IPmasquerading etc etc.

I think..

Linux knows more about routing than most salesmen, put together...

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