Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 14:33:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> To: "Michael K. Smith" <mksmith@noanet.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration Message-ID: <20030806143214.F40140@alpha.yumyumyum.org> In-Reply-To: <BB569408.194BE%mksmith@noanet.net> References: <BB569408.194BE%mksmith@noanet.net>
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> 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 -> 172.16.1.2/30 ed1 -> 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
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