Q: HTTP through multiple NICs

Gardiner, Geoff ggardiner at accelrys.com
Fri Jul 13 07:05:46 EDT 2001


I need to send HTTP traffic through multiple NICs (multihoming with
different IP addresses AND different MAC addresses) on a single PC. The
traffic doesn't need to be simultaneous (I think I'll try to walk before I
run).

I've got a working single-NIC test suite in Python, but haven't worked out
how to direct traffic to more than one NIC - I'm a complete novice in this
area. I can't find anywhere obvious in httplib or its superclasses for a NIC
identifier or local IP address to be used to select the NIC.

Can anyone suggest where I start with this - before I rush out and buy the
NICs? I'm running Win NT at present, but could switch to Linux if that
helps!

Thanks,
Geoff Gardiner




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