[BlueOnyx:06929] Re: Aventurin{e}

[Jeffrey Pellin]

Hi David,

A while ago I experimented with a very similar setup because our service
provider insisted on a separate MAC address for each fixed IP.

We had one single port NIC and one 4 port (much as you are thinking of
doing) on an Aventurine box with 5 licences.

We had lots of problems with this configuration which was not really to do
with Aventurine - more a Linux issue. One of the problems we faced was that
we
couldn't seem to guarantee on start-up which physical interface was going
to be which. This should have been straightforward to fix, but it wasn't.
Whenever we thought is was nailed the issue returned after a short period
of time.
Generally what I thought was a brilliant idea turned out to be incredibly
flakey.

Eventually I did what I should have done in the first place (and what
everyone had told me to do, but I thought I knew better). I configured a
completely separate box as a Router which was connected to our service
provider via the five NICs. Oue Aventurine box had one NIC connected to the
router
and only used private IPs. We used the Router/Firewall to NAT the public
IP's to the private ones.
We had a few issues with NAT reflection to sort out but we had a robust
working model with:

All Server nodes on private IP addresses
Router NATting Public IPs to Private for public VS's
All VS's available on private network.

Hope that this is some help to you.

Regards

Jeffrey






On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 03:25:20 -0500, "KA0JON" <ka0jon at our-klan.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
>  
> 
> I have Aventurin{e} installed on my  server and right now I'm just using
> the
> motherboard 1 gig nic.
> 
>  
> 
> I also have a 4  1gig Port nic card installed and Aventurin{e} recognizes
> it.
> 
>  
> 
> I only have 5 node Aventurin{e} license and right now there all public IP
> addresses.
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>  
> 
> I would like to do something different than run all ip address threw 1
nic
> card
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>  
> 
> I would like to go one of 2 ways,
> 
>  
> 
> 1.      Master node on private ip address  ,  1 private ip address for
> local
> lan vm testing, and the rest public ip addresses.
> 
> 2.      or  Master node on and 4 vsites on public ip addresses and 1
> private
> ip address for internal lan testing.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>       In Aventurin{e}  master node I can see 4 mac interfaces to work
with
> but not sure how to go about it.
> 
>       It was pretty straight forward when I ran BlueOynx by itself.
> 
>  
> 
>     My thinking is Aventurin{e} wouldn't have to work as hard if
everything
> had their own nic,  but I would
> 
>    even settle for 1 public and 1 private nic if I had to.
> 
>  
> 
>   I would appreciate your input
> 
>  
> 
>  regards,
> 
>  
> 
>              David E. Kreifels                              
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