If two nics exist, can a service be only accessable on one and not the other?

[ISAslot]

Basically, I want to run a backup client on one card as to limit its accessablity to only the local network...

 

[polm]

You may be able to team the nics together and then bind your service to that single IP address.

Which OS ?

Which Service ?

 

[ISAslot]

Windows 2k server

Brightstor ARCserve backup client

 

[TXJustin]

To maintain available bandwidth for the primary network, you could add a second NIC to all the machines to be backed up (on their own subnet) and have those all connected to a dedicated switch along with the backup server.

If security is the big issue, you can do the same but with a filtering router -- so that the only traffic that is allowed to enter the backup server is that which you specifically allow.

 

[nweaver]

remove the default gateway for the secondary card, and then you have elimintaed the access to anything beyone local. If you need a remote address on that card, then use the route add command to add it.


route add X.X.X.X Mask X.X.X.X GW.IP.Here.X metric X

I have a setup where I VNC in on one connection and perform network testing on the other connection. I had to ensure that the VNC traffic was not going to the testing connection, and had to set it up with some care.