Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932296AbVKPUOa (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:14:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932577AbVKPUO3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:14:29 -0500 Received: from intranet.networkstreaming.com ([24.227.179.66]:25259 "EHLO networkstreaming.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932296AbVKPUO3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:14:29 -0500 Message-ID: <437B932F.3090607@davyandbeth.com> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:14:39 -0600 From: Davy Durham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: virtual NICs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Nov 2005 20:13:56.0765 (UTC) FILETIME=[460114D0:01C5EAEA] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 583 Lines: 15 Curious question: If I configure multiple IP addresses to a NIC, and assign 1.2.3.4 to eth0 and 5.6.7.8 to eth0:0 (a virtual NIC) is there extra work involved on the part of the CPU or memory or whatever in routing traffic via 5.6.7.8 than 1.2.3.4.. I mean does one IP have an advantage over the other in any sense? Thanks, Davy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/