[SunHELP] Multihomed

[Steve Wingate]

You can even do it with one card and virtual interfaces.

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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 kurt at k-huhn.com wrote:

> > I just want to get comments from you all, as I argue
> > with colleagues that we could setup Solaris server as
> > Multihomed server as long as it has two ethernet card
> > or QFE cards on it.
> >
> > The question Is it really tru or slightly ?
>
> Not just possible, but extremely easy.  Give your first interface one IP,
> and the second another IP.  Way easy.  Istead od "hme0" (for 100mbit
> interfaces under Solaris) the second interface would be "hme1".
>
> It's really nothing new - old hat, actually.  Specific methods vary by OS,
> but how-tos are easy to find.  Might even be in the list archives.
>
> Kurt
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