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Hello, I've been asked at work to set up a couple of redhat 8 servers which have 2 NIC's per server. The idea is to use both NIC's on each server at the same time as a form of load-balancing and resilience. If one nic fails then the other one is still live. For each server each nic has a unique IP address, all of which are visible on the Internet - i.e. they're not private addresses. They both belong to the same subnet and have the same (single) gateway. Ther problem is how to configure this?? At startup both nic's are seen but the routing table only shows one. If I add a static route for the gateway using the missing nic, and a default to the gateway using that nic, then I can get access to/from the server. However, ifconfig seems to indicate that most traffic goes to/from one nic far more often that the other nic. Also each server cannot ping the other one, despite the fact that they are on the same subnet. Has anyone done anything like this? I can find very little about it from the 'net. I asked on the rh list and have had no replies. It seems that most people use multiple nic's for NAT mainly (one side with private addresses, the other on the Internet) rather than resilience or load-balancing/performance. Many thanks, John. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: J.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.