Route traffic through specific interface on multi-homed server.

I have a server with multiple interfaces on the same subnet. We will be
using this server as a data transfer/backup server. It will pull data from
other systems for backup and then push that data to a network attached disk
storage system.

I want this server to use NIC1 for pretty much all standard network traffic
and to use NIC2 to only talk to the storage system.

Does anyone know a good way to do this? I though about adding a static
route in the form of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx MASK 255.255.255.255 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
where x is the storage system IP and y is the IP address of NIC2. This did
not seem to work however because I get an error "The route addition failed:
The parameter is incorrect".

Thoughts?

Thanks.

hello,
You need to specify the interface number, that you will get by route print

You may prefere a network teaming to handle cable/nic failure.
Why not putting a private network between the server and the storage ?

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Cordialement,
Mathieu CHATEAU
http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com


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>I have a server with multiple interfaces on the same subnet. We will be
> using this server as a data transfer/backup server. It will pull data
> from
> other systems for backup and then push that data to a network attached
> disk
> storage system.
>
> I want this server to use NIC1 for pretty much all standard network
> traffic
> and to use NIC2 to only talk to the storage system.
>
> Does anyone know a good way to do this? I though about adding a static
> route in the form of xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx MASK 255.255.255.255 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
> where x is the storage system IP and y is the IP address of NIC2. This
> did
> not seem to work however because I get an error "The route addition
> failed:
> The parameter is incorrect".
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks.