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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Guys, many thanks for your answers...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Tobias, yes, this sounds like what I was looking for and I will definitely have a go and getting this working. However as the server is a four hour drive away I don’t think I’ll be messing with the network config remotely. I was, somewhat naively, hoping it was as simple as setting the same IP for the second NIC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Chris, appreciated the detailed answer too. Great common sense approach to not get wrapped up in the issue. I chatted with one of the techy guys in the data centre and with all the hot-swap/failover stuff they have the chances of a prolonged outage are rare – their business relies on keeping thing working.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Always appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cheers, Richard <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tobias Gablunsky<br><b>Sent:</b> 08 October 2014 08:09<br><b>To:</b> BlueOnyx General Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [BlueOnyx:16113] Re: Redundancy and using two network cards<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Hi Richard,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>what you are looking for is bonding your interfaces. There is a mode called active-passive that would do what you want.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>While it is not very complicated it is not very easy to do if doing it the first time. Here you can find more information: <a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s2-networkscripts-interfaces-chan.html">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s2-networkscripts-interfaces-chan.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>And I don't know how to tell BO to use the new interface that you will be creating, maybe somebody else can help.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Tobias<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> <a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it">blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</a> [<a href="mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it">mailto:blueonyx-bounces@mail.blueonyx.it</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Morgan<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:23 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:blueonyx@blueonyx.it">blueonyx@blueonyx.it</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [BlueOnyx:16111] Redundancy and using two network cards<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi, hope this is simple.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In the data centre we use, we’ve been provided two network cables to connect to the server which come from separate switches/routers to provide redundancy. At the moment we’re only using one of these cables, but we’d like to be able to use both.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>How do I configure the network settings to allow both network ports to be used with the same IP address? I’m not interested in teaming for speed, just the redundancy in case one of the data centre’s switches fails.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=DE>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=DE>Blueonyx mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=DE><a href="mailto:Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it">Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=DE><a href="http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx">http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>