two interfaces one subnet

Mon May 11 20:48:54 UTC 2009

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote:

> ... There are "legitimate" cases where you might want to do
> this.
>

NetApp filers consider this to be a legitimate configuration, even a
"supported and recommended one".  If I understand the documentation
correctly, NetApp will (somehow) remember the physical interface a
request arrived on, and make sure to its send replies out same.  It
sounds like a slight breakage of the expected behavior in order to
gain load-sharing for their multiple NICs attached to the same subnet.
 IIRC, you can turn the feature off if it makes an issue.

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