Re: How to set my Linux machine to have two network cards with two IPs

On Sun, 27 May 2007 02:02:58 -0700, keanewoon wrote:

[link failover]

Or any other alternatives ?

Try the 'bonding' driver:
http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Bonding

And use an interface alias if you still need the second IP adress, e.g.:
ifconfig bond0:1 <ipadress> ...

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