From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 12 15:52:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E9516A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:52:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B02E43D3F for ; Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:52:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:48:43 -0600 Message-ID: <4194DC39.1060204@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:52:25 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041023 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Trevor B. Sullivan" References: <8568FFD8B2D518499160B43B382844C9368EC1@bwmail.corp.baxwood.com> In-Reply-To: <8568FFD8B2D518499160B43B382844C9368EC1@bwmail.corp.baxwood.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Nov 2004 15:48:44.0624 (UTC) FILETIME=[17334D00:01C4C8CF] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 Dual NIC's X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:52:21 -0000 Trevor B. Sullivan wrote: >Hi, I have a Compaq Proliant 3000 server with a fresh install of FreeBSD >5.2.1 on it. It has an Intel Dual-port NIC (of which I'm using one >port), and a Netgear GA620 Gigabit fiber card. The copper port is >referred to as fxp0 and the fiber, ti0. I'm having a problem getting the >two network connections to work together with the same network address. >My private subnet is 10.100.100/24, though if I try to set two adapters >each with their own IP but on the same network, I get "File already >exists" or something to that effect. The default route to my m0n0wall >box is set through fxp0, and I can get ti0 to work if I set the network >addr to 255.255.255.255, but then if my copper interface goes down >(using "ifconfig fxp0 down" as test), the fiber interface will not then >connect. My basic question is...how do I get two independent cards to >have their own IP address on the same network address? Thanks in advance >for assistance. > >Trevor B. Sullivan >Information Technology >Baxter & Woodman, Inc. >Phone: (815) 459-1260 x1337 > Hi, Trevor ... You should probably (if you've not already) send this to questions@, where your question will be able to get the attention it deserves. I'm not sure if I'm even understanding the issue ... if you're looking for a "fallover" pipe to the firewall, couldn't you just hard code in a second route? (See, now if that's stupid, it's cause I'm a bit of a "newbie" myself...) :-D Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.