Dual NICs Problems

[Jonathan Hutchins]

> ---- Original Message -----
> From: jose sanchez

> I successfully installed and configured two NICs on one system. I assigned
eth0 and eth1 the
> following IPs repectively, 10.10.10.100 and 10.10.10.101. When I ping to
eth0 from another
> computer it works fine. But when I try to ping to eth1 from that same
computer I pinged eth0
> from, I get an unreachable host error. Now, if I turn off eth0 ( ifconfig
eth0 down ) I am able
> to reach eth1. When I bring eth0 back up I cannot reach eth0, only eth1. I
have the same
> problem viceversa.

So what are you trying to achieve here?  Are you trying to have a
dual-channel to the server to increase load capacity?

Ordinarily, you would put each card on a different subnet, but I know there
are ways to have multiple connections to the same subnet.