Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:55:05 +1000 From: Ivan Carey <ivan@careytech.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to correctly use 2 on board nics Message-ID: <46654109.8070507@careytech.com.au>
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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
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