On 3/9/07, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
In message f608b67d0703090901m49143780i2638379fec23920d@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Sorry, Wolfgang, I missed your reply before sending an email on another thread. Anyway, the thing is that quite often different interfaces are connected to different subnets and switching interfaces
Yes, this is exactly the intended use. You connect different inter- faces to different networks to provide redundant ethernet capabili- ties.
is completely useless.
Redundancy is useless? Maybe for you. Others pay alot of money for it.
Hey Wolfgang, let's not get personal here, it's just business :-)
I appreciate your point, *in certain setups* it is quite advantageous to be able to try using a different interface.
But in some other setups (let's say there is a system with a controller with two interfaces - once serving the external port, and another one serving the backplane) it is completely pointless to try to say tftpboot off any other interface but the external port.
cheers, vadim
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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