Is there a way to configure a virtual IP for a server with two nic cards?

[belenkym89]

I'm trying to diagram a scenario where I have two 6509s. Each of our servers on the server farm will have two nic cards. One nic connecting to one 6509 and the other nic connecting to the other 6509. My question is can I configure the switches to send traffic to the a virtual IPA that the server would respond to if one of the 6509s were to go down?

I'm not sure if I'm clear in my question. I think what I can compare this to is VSRP?

Can some please point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

[Roberto Salazar]

Nope, this questions should be posed to the servers. One example I can think of is MS WSLB, this is where the NICs are configured where one responds to the virtual IP. When one NIC fails, the other NIC will take over. Check MS site for more details.

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[Mohamed Anees Mohammed Abdulla]

Most of the servers supports Network teaming. Using network teaming you can bundle your two NIC in the server into single virtual network card. In this case You are required to assign only one IP address on the virtual network card.

And Make sure both the 6509 are layer 2 trunking between each other and the trunk should allow the vlan where the server NICs are connected.

[belenkym89]

Thanks for the information. I've googled the information and found what I need to implement this on the Windows server side. I also have AS/400s and Unix systems. Might it be possible using ACLs or Policy Maps to obtain my objective? I would like to keep uniformity as much as possible.

Thanks again.