Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 13 May 2004 09:10:37 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Adam Seniuk <adams@techweavers.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dual Homed IP's
Message-ID:  <40A373CD.2050608@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <hxmw10.sp8zl8@dev10.techweavers.net>
References:  <hxmw10.sp8zl8@dev10.techweavers.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Adam Seniuk wrote:
> I have 2 mail servers, I would like to give those servers 2 ips so if one card
> dies the other will pick it up. 
> 
> But I am having a problem since most of the configurations that i have read
> up on have 2 different ip blocks. I have one large block that i can pick
> from.

If you want true redundancy, you really ought to set up two seperate physical 
networks using different IP ranges, and multihome your system that way.  That 
being said, take a look at "man ng_one2many"...

-- 
-Chuck



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40A373CD.2050608>