Thank you for the response.
I should have been more specific in my original post. The multiple NICs are on the NFS client.
One NIC on the NFS client will be receiving HEAVY VoIP traffic and I want any NFS traffic to be offloaded to a separate NIC on the client, as shown:
________ ________
_| |_ | |
|e| |e| | |
VoIP |t| NFS |t| NFS | NFS |
--------|h| Client |h|-------| Server |
|0| |1| | |
-|________|- |________|
I'm looking for a way to tell the mount command on the NFS client which interface to use. It defaults to the first active interface. I can easily swap interfaces and IPs around in the box to meet my goal, but I was looking for a more flexible solution.
I've read the pertinent man pages and the NFS section in my network administration guide but they make no mention of this. We are currently using NFS version 3.
Thank you,
Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer
I have a NIC that I would like to dedicate to an NFS mount. After much
reading, I can't find any mount options that let me specify the
interface. Mount seems to only want to use the first active NIC on the
system.
If anyone knows how to do this, I'd greatly appreciate your help.
Thank you,
Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer
From what I can tell is you want an nfs client to attach to a certain
nfs server interfaces. If you have the appropriate dns/host record's you
should be able to make this happen.
server01.domain.com 1.1.1.1/24
server01-eth1.domaincom 1.1.2.1/24
client.domain.com 1.1.1.2/24
client-eth1.domain.com 1.1.1.2/24
On client.domain.com
mount server01-eth1.domain.com/exports /imports
Common mistake most people tend to do is over look impact of the routing
involved. If the client does not share a broadcast domain with the
server, you are just going to create a heap of ____.
Provide some details about your network topology with client and server
shown for a better response.
Regards,
Ted
