Hi,

>>Are the clients directly attached to the same network as the
>>interfaces A and B or are clients behind a router that
>>connects to the network with both A and B?

At this time they are connected to the same network; but in future there may be 
clients connected through a router also.

>>Can I ask what the specific reason for wanting all traffic for
>>a specific client to use the same interface is? Normally we
>>find people using interfaces like this for redundency purposes
>>and so it can be appropriate to use IPMP or link aggregation
>>(if supported by the driver) and let Solaris do the load
>>spreading across the interfaces as required.

Example:

There's an Backup Server running on the server with multiple network cards in 
the same network (for example bge0 and bge1). Some Clients of the server are 
important and some not.

Now we want to make sure, that theres is always enough network bandwidth for 
the important clients  to backup there data. Therefor our goal is to configure 
bge0 to only serve the important clients; all other clients should only connect 
via bge1 - even if bge0 is doing nothing. We can configure this on the clients 
via the IP address of the backup server to use but we also need to make sure 
that the server uses the right interface to answer the requests of the clients.

Can this be done with only one network? Or do we have to configure to different 
networks to get it working?

regards

Bernd
 
 
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