Hello,
I have setup two local multihomed servers with redhat 8.0. Each has 2
NIC's in them ,and each nic has its own IP address. The addresses are
'real' - i.e. they are not non-routing private addresses. The servers
are also configured, using iproute2, to load balance the traffic out of
each interface. The simple round-robin of the DNS will provide the
inbound traffic being (sort of) shared out to each nic :-)
No problems generally with this. But if I try and ping from the server
one of its nics, specifying to use the same interface (NIC) then the
ping works. If I tell it to ping the other nic then it fails - generally
it just times out. If I use the IP addresses then it all works. So, for
one server we have:
eth0=141.163.163.248 eth2=141.163.163.249
So 'ping -I eth0 141.163.163.248' and
'ping -I eth2 141.163.163.249' works.
But
'ping -I eth0 141.163.163.249' and
'ping -I eth2 141.163.163.248' fails.
Doing the same, but using the IP addresses
'ping -I 141.163.163.248 141.163.163.249' and
'ping -I 141.163.163.249 141.163.163.248' works.
Anyone know why if I use the interface name it fails, but if I use the
IP addresses it works? Ifconfig of the interfaces shows the correct IP
addresses.
Thanks,
John.
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