How to make use of 2 NICs on server instead of 1

Jim Mozley jim.mozley at exponential-e.com
Wed Mar 31 10:29:49 CEST 2004


emily zhou wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using one Solaris box to monitor 200+ boxes 
> (Unix/NT/Router/Switch/Printers). On Nagios server, we have 2 NICs, 
> right now I only use 1 of them. In order to split the traffic, I 
> intend to use 2 networks, but I just wonder how to conduct bunch of 
> checks going to 1 Nic and others going to another NIC, does anyone 
> have any ideas?


There is a set-up specific to Solaris for two NICs on the same LAN. IIRC 
it's for a failover type scenario (e.g. the two NICs connected to two 
switches), I'm not sure if it load balences but might be worth checking out.

Jim Mozley


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