FreeBSD 5.2.1 Dual NIC's

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Trevor B. Sullivan wrote:

>Hi, I have a Compaq Proliant 3000 server with a fresh install of FreeBSD
>5.2.1 on it. It has an Intel Dual-port NIC (of which I'm using one
>port), and a Netgear GA620 Gigabit fiber card. The copper port is
>referred to as fxp0 and the fiber, ti0. I'm having a problem getting the
>two network connections to work together with the same network address.
>My private subnet is 10.100.100/24, though if I try to set two adapters
>each with their own IP but on the same network, I get "File already
>exists" or something to that effect. The default route to my m0n0wall
>box is set through fxp0, and I can get ti0 to work if I set the network
>addr to 255.255.255.255, but then if my copper interface goes down
>(using "ifconfig fxp0 down" as test), the fiber interface will not then
>connect. My basic question is...how do I get two independent cards to
>have their own IP address on the same network address? Thanks in advance
>for assistance.
> 
>Trevor B. Sullivan
>Information Technology
>Baxter & Woodman, Inc.
>Phone: (815) 459-1260 x1337
>


Hi, Trevor ...

You should probably (if you've not already) send this to questions@,
where your question will be able to get the attention it deserves.

I'm not sure if I'm even understanding the issue ... if you're looking for
a "fallover" pipe to the firewall, couldn't you just hard code in a second
route?  (See, now if that's stupid, it's cause I'm a bit of a "newbie" 
myself...)
:-D

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.