Re: Ethernet NIC dual homing

Laurent Deniel
2001-10-28T22:23:19Z

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) ?