From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 06:09:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7AE16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 06:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out012.verizon.net (out012pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59B5743D49 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 06:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.161.84.3]) by out012.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040513130912.UXTT18295.out012.verizon.net@mac.com>; Thu, 13 May 2004 08:09:12 -0500 Message-ID: <40A373CD.2050608@mac.com> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:10:37 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Seniuk References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out012.verizon.net from [68.161.84.3] at Thu, 13 May 2004 08:09:12 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual Homed IP's X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:09:14 -0000 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