How to correctly use 2 on board nics

[Tom Judge]

Ivan Carey wrote:
> Tom Judge wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
> What is if_lacc ?


My bad, sorry should be if_lagg.

Tom