How to correctly use 2 on board nics

[Tom Judge]

Ivan Carey wrote:
> Hello
> I have a server board with 2 onboard nic's
> I have set them up in rc.conf as follows
> 
> defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
> network_interfaces="em0 em1 lo0"
> ifconfig_em0="inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> ifconfig_em1="inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0"
> 
> The question, is this the correct configuration?
> 
> If I have both nic's connected to the switch I can ping 192.168.1.1 and 
> 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.4
> 
> If I have only em0 connected I can ping 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.3
> 
> If I have only em1 connected I can ping 192.168.1.3.
> 
> What could the 2 onboard nic's be best used for. I was thinking that in 
> the event on was to fail then the other would still be ok.
> 
> Any ideas would help.
> Thanks,
> Ivan


You may want to take a look at if_lacc.

Tom