Re: Dual homed hosts

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@data)
Fri, 23 Sep 94 20:18:37 +0200

Hi!

John> I have a question to ask. What is the best way to deal with the
John> situation of dual homed machines? We have a number of these
John> on our system and I can't find a way to give a host two addresses
John> (one on each ethernet interface).

You can store both addresses separated by white spaces in the address
attribute of a node object. The scripts should pick up and use the
first address (actually, you can put a tcl list there and the scripts
will use the first element).

As I usually use only one address (you can ask the DNS to get the
other addresses if needed), there might be scripts that won't accept
this convention. If you find one, let me know and I will fix it.

Juergen