Subject: Re: Can't get secondary NIC up
From: Grant Horwood (ghorwood@mac.com)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 08:34:54 MST
before you go and throw away pump try it with the h switch ie
pump -i eth0 -h foobar
any old hostname is fine. it's sounds dumb but this solved my pump
problems.
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Hello Keary,
>
> With the new card installed, your built-in ethernet card probably
> changed interface numbers. Before you installed the new nic, it likely
> was eth0, now it is eth1.
>
> You had configured eth0 to use dhcp before. With the new card added, you
> have to configure eth1 for dhcp.
>
> My experience also suggests that pump doesn't work. 'dhcpd' however
> works fine for for me. You can try that one. It comes with the YDL
> installation CD.
>
> There is one thing. If both pump and dhcpd are installed, the network
> configuration scripts will by default try to use pump. So either
> uninstall pump or remove the executable permissions of /sbin/pump and
> you should be set.
>
> Cheers,
> Geert
>
> Keary Suska wrote:
> > I recently installed a new NIC (Asante fast 10/100, which the system
> > identifies as Linksys), but the system will only bring up the *new* card
> > (identified as eth0), and not the built-in ethernet (eth1), using DHCP.
> >
> > I was able to determine that I can bring eth1 up only if I have tcpdump
> > running (something to do with promiscuous mode, I suspect), and only using
> > netcfg. pump won't work at all. I thought I saw someone else with a similar
> > problem--does anyone know what is happening?
> >
> > Keary Suska
> > Esoteritech, Inc.
> > "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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