I have a PC that I want to use as a server.
I have 2 network cards (both working fine), but I want to use one of them for vsftpd only. And the other one for all the other communication.

Does anyone knows how to do that?
How to link a program to a network card?

I am using Fedora 7


Gr,

Gnome

there is no sense in using a single nic for one service, you presumably have a layer 3 logic, i.e. ip addressing, routing, which is making you want this result? what is that?

The reason to do that is, that I visit some Lan party's.

And I want to be sure that my ftp connection is stable and good.

This regardless of the trafiek to my game-servers or all the other possible resource absorbers.

Gnome

you still need to provide more technical information... you're moving an ftp server between seperate LAN's? surely the FTP server is useless then anyway? if you mean from your own home then surely your ISP is the bottleneck, not a nic on your server... more info please.

In those lanparty's we connect + - 100 PC together via an Gb switch.

The people who wants to share data, can put this data on my ftp server.
The people who wants to get data, can find them on my ftpserver.
So all the data is on a central server.

Unfortionatly I also run the game servers, where users can loggin and play games together.

So we have only 1 global network with static ip's.

On this network I have 2 ip's (for my two network cards) on the same network.

Now I want to use one for data trafic (FTP) and one for the other services (Games).

PS. There is no internet connection on those lan's.

Gnome

personally i'd suggest just bonding both nics and using them both for both functions.

i believe if you just tell vsftpd to listen on one ip, end therefore one nic, the return traffic would head that way, but unless you really are seeing one of these nics literally maxing out at, say 800mbps which is as good as you'd ever get on a gig nic, then there's no danger in bonding two nics, and you'll get a better overall performance with less mssing about.

Ok,

Thanks

Gnome