Okay. Understood. I wouldn't bounce traffic off the same interface for
those reasons either. The application I was thinking of is different.
thanks.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Bryan S. Blank wrote:
> % Why exactly is it so bad, especially in a full duplex world?
>
> that you're turning the packet around to be sent back out the
> same wire that it came from, when it's optimal to keep traffic
> destined for the wire that it originates on on that wire.
> isl or .1q trunking to aggregate ethernets is very valid, but
> things like having half of your network on a secondary or general
> bad design really aren't.
>
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