Are the two ethernet ports on the back of the RaQ 3i used for redundancy or what?
I mean if i-face 1 dies...does i-face 2 take over? didnt see anything in the manual...

Im going to upgrade this 3i to a 4r (raid and all) in a few days, i will be sure to put up a how-to on my website for everyone...

thanks

To my knowledge, there are two ports so that your RaQ could function as a proxy server, despite the fact that Cobalt does not supply any proxy server software. Cobalt restricts the ports so that they cannot reside on the same subnet, possibly implying that you would use one as an internal connection, and one as an external connection to the internet. I don't know that very many people do this, however.

Mostly likely, it's just a good marketing point for the glossy brochures. "Two ethernet ports must be better than one," right?

Aaron Greenspan


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Originally posted by thinkcomp
To my knowledge, there are two ports so that your RaQ could function as a proxy server, despite the fact that Cobalt does not

There are many more applications for which two NICs are needed than simple proxy servers. For example if the RaQ was to be a firewall - two NICs would be needed (or 3, or 4).

It's quite common to have an internal network and the external network setup on these two NICs. This means that you can talk to internal database servers, etc. without going on the external connection. This makes it easier to do accounting of what was transferred on the Internet, and it also makes a bit better security wise. Plus ofcourse the great thing that it makes the bandwidth you use for the database seperate of the one for the external interface (i.e. you can use a full 10 or 100 mbps on the internal network for databases, while still having a 10 mbps connection to the outside world).

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