[PLUG] Ethernet Activation Question

Robbert van Andel robbert at vafam.com
Sun Dec 22 23:22:03 UTC 2002


Thank you.  I will try that.

On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:45, Fedor G. Pikus wrote:
> First of all, you control the order of what's eth0 and what's eth1, this
> is done in modules.conf, like this:
> alias eth0 3c509
> alias eth1 off
> 
> Now PCI card (3COM in this example) will be eth0, and eth1 will be
> disabled. If you give the module for eth1, they'll both be active.
> As far as what's configured on boot, this is controlled by scripts in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. You should have ifcfg-eth0, ifcfg-eth1,
> etc for every interface you want to come up on boot. Each file has stuff
> like IP address, netmask, etc. Pay attention to the gateway settings, only
> one of your interfaces should provide the default route, so in
> /etc/sysconfig/network don't forget to specify GATEWAY and GATEWAYDEV.
> Look at "route -n" output, you should have exactly one default route.
> 
> On 22 Dec 2002, Robbert van Andel wrote:
> > I have a webserver that has an onboard nic (eth0) and a pci nic (eth1).
> > I disabled eth0 in bios because the NIC would not work with Red Hat
> > 7.3.  When I booted the computer, both nics were discovered by Red Hat,
> > with eth0 active and eth1 inactive.  I was unable to pass any traffic on
> > eth0 (obviously), so I removed it and activated eth1.  I actually
> > removed eth0 because on every boot, eth0 would be activated and eth1
> > would be inactivated.  Now, I have only the one NIC and whenever I boot,
> > eth1 is inactive.  What do I need to do to make eth1 activate on boot?
> > I tried giving it an alias of eth0, but that didn't work.
> >
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Robbert van Andel
Website Developer
Oregon Swimming, Inc.
www.oregonswim.org






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