Hi, 

We tried this a couple of years ago. All clients who had the second NIC' 
as "server network interface" sent their backup data to broadcast which 
again caused our network to collapse.  The answer from HP was that it is 
not supported. HP-UX does not work correctly when two NIC's are configued 
in the same subnet. The onlky way to do that is either using bundeled NIC's 
or NIC's in different subnets. 

Our solution was to buy the Auto Port Aggregation (APA. This allowed us to 
bundle three NIC's into one VLAN(server LAN) and another three in a 
different VLAN(deignated backup LAN) in two different subnets.  As APA in 
combination with Cisco only supports four bundeled NIC's this was the only 
solution to utilize all our six NIC's

Sorry for the bad news.

Regards
Stein-Are Smoge
ICT Senior Consultant
Rolls-Royce Marine - ICT Operations - Head Office Ulsteinvik
Email:stein.are.smoge AT rolls-royce DOT com
Phone:        +4770014298
Mobile:       +4795721585
Fax:             +4770014020

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