RE: Giving Same IP to both NICs

["Tobias Speckbacher" <TSpeckbacher quova com>]

There also is a rather good piece of documentation on bonding included with the kernel source.
/usr/src/linux-<version>/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
 
-T

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com on behalf of Karasik, Vitaly 
	Sent: Tue 4/12/2005 10:24 PM 
	To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) 
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	Subject: RE: Giving Same IP to both NICs
	
	

	
	>
	> Hi all
	>
	> I have an Dual Xeon based server with 4 GB RAM with 2 Gigabit
	> NICs.Can I give the same IP to both of the NICs.
	> I want to make the NICs to be configured as network load balancing.
	>
	No, You should use bonding:
	http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/ref-guide/s1
	-networkscripts-interfaces.html#S2-NETWORKSCRIPTS-INTERFACES-CHAN
	
	Rgds,
	Vitaly
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