Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 11:16:24 -0700 From: "Michael K. Smith" <mksmith@noanet.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Question concerning dual-NIC configuration Message-ID: <BB569408.194BE%mksmith@noanet.net>
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Hello:
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.
Is this possible?
Mike
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