Dual Homed IP's

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu May 13 06:09:14 PDT 2004


Adam Seniuk wrote:
> I have 2 mail servers, I would like to give those servers 2 ips so if one card
> dies the other will pick it up. 
> 
> But I am having a problem since most of the configurations that i have read
> up on have 2 different ip blocks. I have one large block that i can pick
> from.

If you want true redundancy, you really ought to set up two seperate physical 
networks using different IP ranges, and multihome your system that way.  That 
being said, take a look at "man ng_one2many"...

-- 
-Chuck


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