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 -- ________________________________________________________________________ Multi-RBL Check: http://www.TQMcube.com/rblcheck.htm Kill Spam at the Source: http://www.TQMcube.com/spam_trap.htm Today's Spam Trap Adds: http://www.TQMcube.com/BlockedToday RBLDNSD HowTo: http://www.TQMcube.com/rbldnsd.htm