Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:07:45 +0100 From: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> To: ivan@careytech.com.au Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to correctly use 2 on board nics Message-ID: <46654401.4030302@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <46654109.8070507@careytech.com.au> References: <46654109.8070507@careytech.com.au>
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Ivan Carey wrote: > Hello > I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's > I have set them up in rc.conf as follows > > defaultrouter="192.168.1.1" > network_interfaces="em0 em1 lo0" > ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_em1="inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0" > > The question, is this the correct configuration? > > If I have both nic's connected to the switch I can ping 192.168.1.1 and > 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.4 > > If I have only em0 connected I can ping 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.3 > > If I have only em1 connected I can ping 192.168.1.3. > > What could the 2 onboard nic's be best used for. I was thinking that in > the event on was to fail then the other would still be ok. > > Any ideas would help. > Thanks, > Ivan You may want to take a look at if_lacc. Tom
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