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Re: Multi homing

On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 11:26 AM, email@hidden wrote:

Hi,
Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there anyway to get more than
1 network interface active at the same time ???. (Multi-homing I think the
term is ???)

Yes.

As I have both Ethernet and Airport connections, but when I try to ping
anything, the traffic always goes out the what ever is the top checked port
within the network system preference (This is within MacOS-X normal, i.e.
Not Server ).

If both network interfaces have addresses on the same subnet then your traffic "should" go out the top checked port. If the interfaces are on different subnets then any traffic destined for the local subnets will be sent out the appropriate interface. Traffic destined off-network will go to the default route (which tracks the top checked port).

They are both checked, and in the order Ethernet, Airport. I did think at
one time if that the system worked if one wasn't available that the next
port would become active, but that doesn't happen.

It should "just work".

- Allan
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