Re: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration
Coming from a Network Engineering perspective, I'm interested in having my servers be as redundant as possible. I have two NIC's in the machine, so I would like for the server to be reachable over either interface. To my mind, I would give a loopback interface an IP address that is the server in this case. Then, each interface would have it's own subnet and I would route over those two interfaces to the loopback for all packets destined to the server. So, something like: lo1 - 192.168.1.1/32 ed0 - 172.16.1.2/30ed1 - 172.16.1.6/30 Then, on the router, I have a route statement for 192.168.1.1/32 over the two interface subnets. You could do this, but I'm not sure why you'd want to route those 2 to 1 interface. it'd be easier to make your server daemons listen on the 2 ed devices. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration
why would ya want to route lo1 127.0.0.1 to a 192.x.x. address ??? seems to me that there are to many system side processes that listen or ocmmunicate thru that...giving access or routing that traffic to a internal address ...doesnt seem to smart to me. -- I wouldn't; I was using that as an example. I would want to create a second, separate loopback interface, much in the same way you can do on a Cisco and then route traffic across both interfaces to the loopback. All of the addresses would be valid. That still doesn't seem like something you'd want to do. It doesn't really gain you anything that I can think of. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration
why would ya want to route lo1 127.0.0.1 to a 192.x.x. address ??? seems to me that there are to many system side processes that listen or ocmmunicate thru that...giving access or routing that traffic to a internal address ...doesnt seem to smart to me. This is basically what I just said. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration
why would ya want to route lo1 127.0.0.1 to a 192.x.x. address ??? seems to me that there are to many system side processes that listen or ocmmunicate thru that...giving access or routing that traffic to a internal address ...doesnt seem to smart to me. -- I wouldn't; I was using that as an example. I would want to create a second, separate loopback interface, much in the same way you can do on a Cisco and then route traffic across both interfaces to the loopback. All of the addresses would be valid. Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
