O.K. gang you better be nice to me.... I know some real important people,
especially this time of year. Darn where did I leave my red hat?????






                    Doug
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                    11/20/2000
                    12:12 PM
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I agree Kelly, and while we're at it, I'd like to nominate him for
Sainthood?
(At least for the rest of the holiday season)

On Monday, November 20, 2000 8:29 AM, Kelly J. Lipp [SMTP:lipp AT STORSOL DOT 
COM]
wrote:
> I think we found the guy to send all NIC related questions to.  Maybe we
can
> get Brian to change the spelling of his name.
>
> American Holiday humor.  I noticed we had all become too serious again.
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
> Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> PO Box 51313
> Colorado Springs CO 80949-1313
> (719) 531-5926
> Fax: (719) 260-5991
> Email: lipp AT storsol DOT com
> www.storsol.com
> www.storserver.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Brian Nick
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 6:53 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: NIC Question
>
>
> Terry,
>
>  I believe that there is a client option that can control this for you
the
> option is TCPCLIENTADDRESS. You can only use this option if you are
running
> in PROMPTED mode.
>
>  Hope this helps.
>
>  Brian
>
> Brian L. Nick
> Systems Technician - Storage Solutions
> Phoenix Home Life Mutual Ins.
> 100 Bright Meadow Blvd
> Enfield CT. 06082-1900
>
> E-MAIL:  Brian_Nick AT PHL DOT COM
> PHONE:   (860)403-2281
>
>
>
>
>                     "Barth, Terry (MBS)"
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>                     11/20/2000 08:47 AM
>                     Please respond to
>                     "ADSM: Dist Stor
>                     Manager"
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hello All -
>
> I have a sun solaris ADSM server that has 3 NIC cards. We would like to
> utilize all 3 NIC cards for backups and restores, independently.  We set
up
> the cards according to SUN and everything seems fine on that end.
However,
> when a backup starts off, it sends all data through the first NIC card
and
> then when it receives data, it spans through all 3 cards. Our switch
> recognizes all 3 cards, but as soon as a backup begins on one of the
other
> NICS - say for instance, 48.22, the MAC disappears and the switch no
longer
> recognizes the card.  We feel that there is something on the ADSM server
> side that we need to set up so that if we tell a client to do a backup
and
> designate that the server has an IP address of xx.xx.48.22, that all
> communications will go through this NIC card and not touch the others.
>
> xx.xx.48.20
> xx.xx.48.21
> xx.xx.48.22
>
> My question is, what is it that I need to set up on the ADSM server side,
> so
> that it uses each NIC card independently.
>
> I have placed the IP address in the opt file on the client end. Is there
> something that I need to do on the server end?
>
> Any assistance will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Terry