Len, Thanks for you input, however, it is not the NIC I am concerned about it is the ISP which are dropping like flies. I do not want my client to wake up in the mornining cast of into never never land. He lives and dies by email (and does not trust hosting).
~David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Wednesday, 09 October, 2002 13:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Newbie questions >Q1: A server with 2 NIC's, each NIC with an IP from 2 different ISP >(redundancy). NIC number 1 has a MX record with a lower values and NIC >number 2 has a higher value. In theory, if the internet connection to >NIC 1 fails, email servers will use the MX record with the higher value. >However, when creating the domain I can only pick 1 IP? Is this doable? Imail listens on all ip's. I haven't see this confirmed, but I suspect that no matter what ip a msg arrives on, Imail will accept it if it's for any of Imail's domains. >Q2: Same as above with 2 domains with each one having its own IP >address. NIC 1 with 2 IP's from one ISP and NIC 2 with 2 IP's from >another ISP. > >Can this be done? Imail listens on all ip's and I think it listens on all ip's for any mail addressed to any domain hosted on any ip. To be confirmed. You seem to be worried about NIC failure interrupting mail, which for me is extremely rare compared with all the other reasons for mail interruption. If you haven't covered all the more probably points of failure, I'd move the NIC concern way down the list for now. Len To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
