NIC card issue!!

[David Cary Hart]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 21:57 +0530, Partho Protim Paul wrote:
> hi folks!!
> i was wondering... no this is no way related to
> clustering.... its more or less related to network
> load balancing. i got 2 pcs and on each pcs i got 2
> nic cards. 
> i was wondering how can i make the cards go live. 
> what i mean is suppose if one card fails to work!! is
> there any mecanism that the other card picks up the
> same network id number and same mask. viz. the 3com

You can create a bridge but a hardware bridge is a better idea.

This requires bridge-utils which may already be installed and then read:
/usr/share/doc/bridge-utils-1.0.4/HOWTO

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