[ale] OT: WIN2k Networking

[John Wells]

One thing I've wondered when comparing WinX networking to Linux
networking.

With Windows, you can multiple domains (i.e., something.com,
somethingelse.com) and it will attempt to resolve your host first by
something.com, second by somethingelse.com.

However, under linux, I've not figured a way to do this.  My
understanding is that you can only have one "search something.com" in
/etc/resolv.conf.  So is this multiple domain capability a Microsoft
thing, or am I wrong about the ability to do it under Linux?

Thanks,

John


On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 15:08, Jerry Z. Yu wrote:
> 	I don't think it is a microsoft-specific thing. It is a TCP/IP 
> thing. A specific TCP/IP setting is per network interface ( one interface 
> per NIC, or even multiple interface per NIC). If you have one single 
> interface defined, you can say one TCP/IP setting per system (as long as 
> the system you refers to have only one interface).
> 	you can have multiple default route(default gateway). normally, 
> different metric value would be assigned to set priority to use which.
> 	A system with multi-nic each participating different network, and 
> software to selectively forward traffic from one nic (or the network it 
> participates) to the other, you get yourself a 'router'.
> 
>  On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Denny Chambers wrote:
> 
> #Hi all,
> #
> #    I have been looking at Windows 2k TCP/IP networking (Professional 
> #Workstation in vmware), and I have notice that when you have multiple 
> #NIC cards, that it lets you setup all of the TCP/IP information 
> #seperately for each NIC. This mean I can setup an IPaddress, subnetmask 
> #on each card (this is normal). I can also setup not just one Default 
> #Gateway per card, but multiple Default Gateways per card (So which one 
> #is the Default?). Also each card can have it's own set of DNS servers, 
> #and it's own set of WINS servers. I am curious as to how the services 
> #(DNS, WINS, Routing) handle all of this. Normally you would only have 
> #one DefaultGateway for a system, with additional routes to other 
> #subnets. You also would have one set of DNS servers (primary, secondary, 
> #and tertiary), a DNS domain, and a set of search Domains.
> #
> #Can any Microsoft knowledgable folks shed some light on this.
> #
> #Thanks,
> #Denny
> #
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