I am currently adding a third interface to our DMA's for network communication in the DMS and to avoid the virtual IP (from a active-standby team) being assigned to it by accident we have specified the MGMT / ACQ network MAC's and used skipMAC in the network configuration for the 3rd network card.
Can a DMA support a 3rd interface card with a 3rd virtual IP by just adding the extra MAC into the Dataminer or DMS configuration or am I limited to Management / Acquisition network interfaces only?
It looks like I can use some custom Windows networking to do this but it would be better to do within the DMA configuration environment if possible to provide a 3rd virtual IP address. Has anyone already made this work?
As this question has now been inactive for a very long time, I will close it. If you still want more information about this, could you post a new question?
In general a DMA can support multiple NICs.
As far as I can see in dataminer docs, configuration and management of VIP will only be handled by the DMA on the two interfaces you have selected as Corporate and Acquisition. For additional NICs on the server you will have to manage this yourself using Windows GUI or command line.
We have been able to use Windows networking functions to allow DMA to send traffic over a third interface and to segment this from the other DMA VIP controlled interfaces on the management and acquisition networks. It would be great if future releases of DMA could support additional networking interfaces >2 with VIP. Thankyou, this issue can be closed.
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