"Austad, Jay" wrote: > > Anyone know how to do adapter teaming with a couple of EEpro or 3c905's? > > I have a server that I need to put 2 NIC's in for redundancy. If one fails, > the other one will still need to carry traffic. Assigning 2 ip's is not an > option. > > I know you can do this with NT/2000 (blech), but how do you do it with > Linux? > > Jay > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list Jay, Why is temporarily assigning 2 ips not an option? This is the way Siemens did it. A very small heartbeat program communicated to one card and when there was no response the program reconfigured the secondary ethernet card for the primary network. Simple, inexpensive, effective. Matt. -- Matthew Thoren, MTT Computer Consulting Inc. 2633 Fremont Ave. North, Minneapolis, MN 55411 mthoren at mttcc.com, http://www.mttcc.com Contract/Hourly Programming and System Administrative Services. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mthoren.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 305 bytes Desc: Card for Matt Thoren Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20001215/2bc22ced/mthoren.vcf