[Samba] Samba File Server with 2 NICs, only one is used

[Steve Williams]

Chris wrote:

>On Friday 15 July 2005 09:12 am, Anastasios Papadopoulos wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>We have a Mandrake 10.1 server with Samba 3.0.13. The box has 2 NICs,
>>2 IPs and our DNS servers have both entries (same name for 2 IPs).
>>Since kerberos is not working around here (tried to fix it for about
>>3 weeks, then gave up) I found my workaround: I use NetBIOS alias for
>>my server, all clients use this alias for samba access and they
>>authenticate thgrough SSPI.
>>
>>My problem is that only one of my NICs seems to work :
>>
>>ifconfig | grep RX\ bytes gives:
>>
>>          RX bytes:2906637535 (2771.9 Mb)  TX bytes:4256133463
>>(4058.9 Mb) RX bytes:13805476 (13.1 Mb)  TX bytes:546 (546.0 b) RX
>>bytes:151532631 (144.5 Mb)  TX bytes:151532631 (144.5 Mb) (last line
>>is lo)
>>    
>>
>
>2 nic's on the same subnet?
>I have been told that this will not work. And to type "route" to see 
>why.
>
>Chris
>  
>
At a networking level, 2 NIC's on the same network will of course work.  
To route traffic, use the -ifa or -ifp modifiers (on OpenBSD)... ymmv on 
other OS's. 

Cheers,
Steve