Configure 2 network cards
Jason Dixon
jason at dixongroup.net
Wed May 19 14:20:36 UTC 2004
On May 19, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Charles.Collier at pimkie.fr wrote:
> I have 2 network cards on my server (running with Red Hat ES 3 update
> 1)
>
> The first one is the main one, which is always working, the second one
> is a backup.
>
> I'd like to know: how to configure my 2 network cards to change the
> default card in case of problem (keeping the same configuration: IP,
> gateway...).
If you want both cards to use the same network configuration, I think
you'll want to use VRRP. I haven't tried the following, but here is a
userland implementation of VRRP:
http://off.net/~jme/vrrpd/
And this page from the Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control HOWTO
describes a simple config with vrrpd:
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.other.html
HTH.
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Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net
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