Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:38:30 -0900 (AKST) From: Dee McKinney Message-ID: Subject: RE: [SLE] 2 nic You didn't read my post, I have a working setup on my gateway box with 2 NIC's already. Don't need any help. I was asking why it is a need to edit lilo.conf for some setup's with 2 NIC's but not all. <p>On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Matthew Johnson wrote:

You can add both the nics to rc.config, including all there IP address etc. If you have one entered it will be obvious what to do with the 2nd one.

Also, you need to add the modules (unless its built into the kernel), with these lines:

alias eth0 <modulename> alias eth1 <modulename>

I cannot remember the name of the module for 3Com cards as I cannot afford such high quality cards :-).

Run SuSEconfig after doing these additions.

Hope that helps,

Matthew

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Dee McKinney wrote:

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Interesting.....

I have 2 3C905B's in my SuSE 7.0 gateway, and I didn't have to add the lilo addition. Is it only when you have different kind's of nic's ?

/Dee

-----Original Message----- From: Robert Sweet [mailto:rsweet@socal.rr.com] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 7:13 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] 2 nic

Go into yast...system administration--->integrate hardware into system----->add eth1 and the appropriate module i.e., if you have NE2000 make sure you select the right module (note: ne2000 come in two flavors ISA or PCI). Then you need to edit lilo.conf (you can do this in yast but I prefer to do it by hand). Add a line like this to lilo.conf:

append="eth0=0xXXX,eth0 eth1=0xXXX,eth1"

Replace XXX with hardware address found in /proc/pci or look in dmesg. Hope this helps :) --