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From: tsuchiya@gateway.mitre.ORG (Paul Tsuchiya)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: More than one IP (sub)network on one ethernet cable
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Date: 19 Dec 87 18:29:24 GMT
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I have a hard time believing that optimazation of non_local
traffic through a bridge is a valid reason for going through the
hassle of having two network numbers for what is otherwise
a single network.  If you have so much traffic that you need two
gateways, then have two, but give them the same network number.
If you really want to keep traffic from segment a on segment a
and traffic from segment b on segment b, then put a gateway
between the two Ethernet segments.

What is the point between putting two different Internet networks
on a single extended LAN?  Is this commonly done?  Is there a good
reason that is not occuring to me?

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