User`s guide

Chapter 4 Initial Server Setup 93
Configuring Servers With Multiple Ethernet Ports
Your server has a built-in Ethernet port and may have additional Ethernet ports built in
or added on.
When you’re using Server Assistant to interactively set up one or more servers, all of a
server’s available Ethernet ports are listed and you select one or more to activate and
configure. When you work in Server Assistant’s offline mode, you click an Add button to
manually create a list of ports to configure.
If you enable more than one port, you specify the order in which the ports should be
used by the server when routing traffic to the network. While the server receives
network traffic on any active port, network traffic initiated by the server is routed
through the first active port.
See the Mac OS X Server Worksheet for Version 10.4 or Later for a description of port
configuration attributes. The worksheet is located on the Mac OS X Server installation
disc in the Documentation folder. The Preface tells you where else you can find the
worksheet.
Using Interactive Server Setup
When you have only a few servers to set up, the interactive approach is useful.
To use this approach, open Server Assistant, connect to one or more target servers,
supply setup data, then initiate the setup immediately.
You can use the interactive approach to set up a local server, a remote server, or several
remote servers.