How do you setup a second NIC?

[Ken Schweigert]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:01:33AM -0600, Michael Graham wrote:
> I have an 8500 that I've installed a Asante Fast 690 10/100 NIC and 
> have not be able to get both the internal interface and the new card to 
> work correctly at the same time (eth0 & eth1). Works fine separately 
> but, I want to have my internet services (web, email, ftp and dns) 
> running off of the internal interface (eth1) and my appletalk file 
> services running off of the Asante card (eth0). Despite my every 
> attempt, I've been unable to successfully do this. What is the trick? 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Duplicate your ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth1:
  [root@byteme /root]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
  [root@byteme network-scripts]# cp ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1

Edit the new ifcfg-eth1 to have the correct IP address, subnet, etc.

Activate the interface:
  [root@byteme network-scripts]# ifup eth1

-ken

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