so I have just got a new motherboard for my Ubuntu 12.04 server and it has dual Gigabit Intel NICs. I use the server as an SMB file server and a Plex Media Server. Currently, I have 1 NIC connected and my /etc/network/interfaces
looks like this:
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.81
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.254
dns-nameservers 192.168.1.254
I know to start I will add an auto eth1
but will this use the same IP address or will it have its own? I want it to act as though there is only one NIC, but that the NIC is 2 Gigabit so I could be copying a file to a samba share on it at ≈100mbps and then be able to stream something from Plex and utilise both NICs?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm fairly experienced with Ubuntu but not as much when it comes to networking. Thanks in advance!