1 Server, 1 IP, 2 NICs. Load balancing would be nice, redundancy is the primary goal. i.e. if a NIC dies, life goes on over the alternate NIC without interruption.
Google points me towards bonding the NICs (Documentation/networking/bonding.txt) but I wondered if anyone had done this and what approach you took. Just to make this post educational, they originally set up 2 IP addresses - one for each NIC - so that they could always get to the server with at least one IP address. This does not work as you would think though, if both NICs are on the same subnet, and only one card ends up being used for both IP addresses, and its failure is the end for both addresses. -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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