Hi. On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +0000, mick crane wrote: > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections.
They call them "ports" usually. Such things exist for a long time in a server world, but are infrequent in consumer one. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 Yes, it's definitely possible - from IP stack point of view each port is a different network interface. It'll unlikely be efficient (compared to a managed switch, that is) if your plan is to use such card as a router - after all you'll need to copy all the packets to the kernel and back, and that takes time. But it still going to beat more common DIY combo of two/three USB-Ethernets. Reco
