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Dedicated server with multiple network interfaces
toilettheft
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Hi, it's me again
Anyone knows a provider where you can have multiple NICs on a server (at least two, more would be nice)? For packet.com I found one with two interfaces but the traffic is rather expensive ...
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We can provide dual diverse NIC's.
AFAIK, you can ask Hetzner to add another NIC to certain servers, at least this was listed on their add-on page
What are dual diverse NIC's?
Diverse routing and cabling of the network ports over separate switches to different routers adding additional redundancy.
i can provide 4x with 4x different providers but depend of the config/budget. Also romania is ok?
Most providers should be able to provide you with multiple network drops.
It really depends on if you need diverse connections to a second switch for redundancy or if you just want to blast more bandwidth.
Do you need this over a 10Gbps or 20Gbps or just 1-2gbps?
Most dedis running on "real" server hardware should have at least 2 interfaces. Just inquire if they can add/connect it.
If you're looking for redundancy, I would suggest adding a second server, and confirming before hand that it would be on a different network & power segment. Just my 2 cents
Sounds interesting, can you share more info? Romania would be ok.
Some add-on question:
As @serveria_com mentioned many server motherboards have two NIC's.
Does anyone know how these are connected under the hood? Yeah sure ... soldered to the motherboard. iirc they are some kind of PCI devices. I'm still looking (see my other thread) for some way to pass through a NIC selectively to a VM. So no bridging, NAT ... . SR-IOV would be most optimal and could work as long as the NIC does not share the iomu group with something important (like the other NIC) This depends a lot on the model of the motherboard, at least for the average desktop version. I think for server the situation is a bit better. Maybe someone here knows, or can easily check with some motherboards they have? I'm going to try this with some boards I have lying around.
Edit: Just checked a rather old intel desktop and one intel server motherboard. The server board could pass through the PCI device belonging to one of the NIC's without affecting other stuff. So chances are probably not that bad.
for a real budget i can offer you this
1 link with 1ipv4 in UPC (liberty gloal)
2 link with 1 ipv4 in GTS Telekom Romania
3 link with 1 ipv4 in RCS-RDS
4 link with 1 ipv4 in Telekom romania
The rest config can be discuted. If you are interesed pm with more details please , like traffic espected , what kind of server you want , etc etc.
Real budget = more then $7? My word!