Hi Guys, many thanks for your answers...
Tobias, yes, this sounds like what I was looking for and I will definitely have a go and getting this working. However as the server is a four hour drive away I don't think I'll be messing with the network config remotely. I was, somewhat naively, hoping it was as simple as setting the same IP for the second NIC. Chris, appreciated the detailed answer too. Great common sense approach to not get wrapped up in the issue. I chatted with one of the techy guys in the data centre and with all the hot-swap/failover stuff they have the chances of a prolonged outage are rare - their business relies on keeping thing working. Always appreciated. Cheers, Richard From: blueonyx-boun...@mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-boun...@mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Tobias Gablunsky Sent: 08 October 2014 08:09 To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List Subject: [BlueOnyx:16113] Re: Redundancy and using two network cards Hi Richard, what you are looking for is bonding your interfaces. There is a mode called active-passive that would do what you want. While it is not very complicated it is not very easy to do if doing it the first time. Here you can find more information: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/htm l/Deployment_Guide/s2-networkscripts-interfaces-chan.html And I don't know how to tell BO to use the new interface that you will be creating, maybe somebody else can help. Tobias From: blueonyx-boun...@mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-boun...@mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Richard Morgan Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:23 AM To: blueo...@blueonyx.it Subject: [BlueOnyx:16111] Redundancy and using two network cards Hi, hope this is simple. In the data centre we use, we've been provided two network cables to connect to the server which come from separate switches/routers to provide redundancy. At the moment we're only using one of these cables, but we'd like to be able to use both. How do I configure the network settings to allow both network ports to be used with the same IP address? I'm not interested in teaming for speed, just the redundancy in case one of the data centre's switches fails. Thanks Richard _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
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