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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Horne wrote: > > 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. The LARTC HOW-TO discusses some ideas, mainly aimed at routing other boxes traffic, but well worth a read IMHO. It is not uncommon approach to create a virtual address, and pretend you are routing from it to the router, with redundant routes. Another pragmatic but "dumb" approach is just to run different traffic to/from each, and alias the address to the other if one interfaces can't ping the router. The "smart" way is to bind them at level 2, but this requires compatible switch hardware I believe, but I think "config" tells you about this option when your building a kernel ;-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+KJN9GFXfHI9FVgYRAuqgAKCJtGQRu6j0U644WL/B/9cabV7lJQCgst+2 PBwUFwqvZAGSXBf/AZA0oms= =oNdy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.