If you really want the fail-over capability, you should either use a
hardware 2-port NIC or have a software program monitor the two cards.
In the case of a software program,
- assign a different IP to the second NIC card
- have a program monitor the M2 registers of the primary
NIC card to check for the link status.
- if the link status is down, bring-down the primary and
change the IP of the secondary.
The current behaviour what you see may be normal for linux networking
stack. I haven't done this, but don't rely on the bulbs - for sure!
| eth0 --> 192.168.1.130
| eth1 --> 192.168.1.131
|
| I really want two cards for convienence and redundancy. (ex: in theory
if one
| card failed or was misconfigured I should still be able to
| reach the machine through the other card).
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