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Two Network cards for redundancy

Hi all,
The 520 we've got came with two ethernet cards, and as I understand they were configured so that they both worked with the same IP address. This to introduce redundancy in case one failed (and perhaps to spread the load?). Then, when we restored our old system onto the 520, the network config got broken and I just set it up with one network card.
I'm going to have a go tomorrow at setting up the dual-card option tomorrow, but I can't work out how. I guess that you give each ethernet line it's own TCP/IP interface with a unique IP address, but I can't find where to specify the third IP address - the IP address you want both cards to 'pretend' to be. Can anyone help?
Also, we have some fairly fancy HP switches - do I need to configure them so that they know about this special setup? 

Cheers

Guy

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