Re: [Server-devel] Aternative setting for eth0 on servers that are not #1

2008-08-28 Thread David Van Assche
Hi Martin, Having worked in both 1 and 2 nic situations, what I've found often happens, and it doesn't really matter what distro or release, is that eth0 and/or eth1 often get blocked somehow... almost always something happens kernel side to disable one of the nics... This of course then catapul

[Server-devel] Aternative setting for eth0 on servers that are not #1

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Wad, now that I am revamping the networking setup, the 'secondary servers' may only have eth0. It makes sense to set them with their main address on eth0 rather than on eth1. Agree/disagree? What would you use eth0 for on those machines? We are talking about the multi-server scenario depicted