> I'm with the consensus o this. There are other ways to get
> failover and
> load sharing solutions that avoid the problems. How about
> multiple DNS
> entries that alternate/cycle IP responses.
Well, I seem to have won the point on the MAC addresses; thanks to everyone for the input.
The IP address issue remains, but if I've read the docs correctly I *should* be able to do what is required using IP aliases. Can't see much about the behaviour if the alias is set to the same address as the first interface - probably need to try tinkering.
DNS isn't in use on these networks (at the moment), so that is unfortunately a non-starter. If the first network "goes down" (interpreted here as loss of link as that's the only indicator I have in this system), all traffic is to be sent from the 2nd interface instead - BUT the machine has to respond to the same IP address on both ports whilst both nets are up.
> Do the other machine _really_ care if the IP is the same?
Allegedly, yes - but I'm having difficulty getting near the real requirement/problem definition for this.
Peter
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