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From: Ivan Carey <ivan@careytech.com.au>
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Subject: Re: How to correctly use 2 on board nics
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Tom Judge wrote:
> 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
>
>
What is if_lacc ?