Not really sure but you can force traffic via 1 interface by adding a interface route. Are the clients in a local subnet or are they behind the router ? If behind the router why not simply use the gigabit adapter ? and remove the 10/100 adapters
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday 17 January 2003 07:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hi This is perhaps more of a communication question rather than a storage management question, but I will still ask, considering some of you out there should have encountered this problem. One of our customers have a P-Series 610 running AIX ML 4.3.3.09. It's equipped with 2 100Mbs Ethernet adapters and one GB adapter. Previously, they all were located on the same subnet. Now, we've move the GB adapter into a separate subnet. The configuraiton looks like this: 1st 100Mbs Ethernet = 192.168.1.1/24 default gateway 192.168.1.254 2nd 100Mbs Ethernet = 192.168.1.2/24 1st Gigabit Ethernet = 192.168.5.1/24 This has become a problem. Everytime a client connects to the TSM server, it responds from the adapter which have the default gateway set. The customer is running spanning tree, which means that it wont allow the TSM server to receive data on one adapter, and respond from another. However, I haven't found a way to have the TSM server respond from the same adapter on which the client connected. In my opinion, this can only be solved in to ways; either having a default gateway for each adapter, or, setting some kind of option, telling the TSM server to awalys respond on the same adapter on which it received the data. BUT, the first alternative doesnt work. AIX 4.3.3.09, in contrary to 5L, wont let me set multiple default gateways, specifying one for each adapter. In AIX 5L, I have the option, when setting static routes, of binding the static route to a specific adapter. When trying to add a second default gateway on AIX 4.3.3.09, it only tells me that there is already a default gateway. The second alternative, however, seems theoretically impossible. The AIX server shouldnt be able to respond to a client, connection from a different subnet, from the adapter on which it received the initial client session. This is because the adapter dont have a default gateway, and therefore shouldn't be able to find it's way to the client, located on a different subnet. This problem still existed when we had all adapters running on the same IP subnet. The GB adapter could recieve data initiated from the clients, but the respones always went through the first 100Mbs ethernet adapter, which had the default gateway. Is there anybody out there running an AIX server with multiple adapters, which have multiple subnets, and has been able to have the AIX respond to the client on the same adapter on which the client initially started the IP session? Perhaps I'm not a communication expert, but to me, this seems like a fairly simple problem. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman ----------------------------------- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
