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To: Mark Hahn <hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca>
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Subject: Re: Ethernet NIC dual homing
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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) ?
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