Multipal network cards

[nathan r. hruby]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Scott Truitt wrote:

> I have a yellowdog linux 2.3 on a g4 500 server with five network 
> cards. Does anyone know how to set them up? I tried but it kept giving 
> them all the same ip and causing trouble. any help is appreciated
> 

Each network card will be assigned a specific ethN, whene N is a number 
between 0 and 4.  The is done by kernel and depends on what card is where 
in the bus and the load order of the drivers.  I;m assuming you have this 
working already.

in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts there should be a bunch of files, some 
of them will be files named like:
	ifcfg-eth0
	incfg-eth1
so on and so forth.  Each of the ifcfg file should contain the IP 
information for the adapter is is named for.  If there are not multiple 
ifcfg files, you can simple comy the ifcfg-eth0 file to the name you need 
and then edit it with the correct values.  (The contents of each file is 
dead simple and intuitive, or at least should be by now :)

The issue you are seeing is a known bug in the YDL 2.3 installer, which I 
reproted a while back.  I belive it is fixed (wholesale, with a new 
installer) in YDL-3.0.  FWIW, you really should be runnign 3.0, as erratta 
for 2.3 will no longer be released and 3.0 is not binary compatible with 
2.3.

HTH,

-n


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