How about channel bonding? If you put two (or more) cards into a switch, you'd get redundancy, plus the extra speed of more channels into your hub/switch. I know this is a current kernel (2.2.15+) option for sure, but I haven't gotten it to work yet. There should be docs/howtos/etc available in the usual places I'm sure. Thoughts? MK On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Matt Thoren wrote: > "Austad, Jay" wrote: > > > > Anyone know how to do adapter teaming with a couple of EEpro or 3c905's? > > > > I have a server that I need to put 2 NIC's in for redundancy. If one fails, > > the other one will still need to carry traffic. Assigning 2 ip's is not an > > option. > > > > I know you can do this with NT/2000 (blech), but how do you do it with > > Linux? > > > > Jay > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > Jay, > > Why is temporarily assigning 2 ips not an option? This is the way > Siemens did it. A very small heartbeat program communicated to one card > and when there was no response the program reconfigured the secondary > ethernet card for the primary network. Simple, inexpensive, effective. > > Matt. > -- ________________________________________________________ ReadyNET Go!, Inc. - Building your Business on the net ________________________________________________________ Mark J. Kroska MIS Director 320.656.0765 Voice 888.447.3239 Toll Free 320.203.7052 Fax http://www.readynetgo.com mailto:mkroska at readynetgo.com ________________________________________________________