Message-ID: <79C9E272CA9DD111A6910060082B1BE37CEA2E@HAPPY> From: Dee McKinney <dmckinney@akfiberstar.com> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:18:41 -0900 Subject: RE: [SLE] 2 nic Thanks all, It's nice to understand the differences in configuration. I try to post to the list so as to have a source for others to search the archives as well. /Dee -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Johnson [mailto:matthew@psychohorse.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:23 AM To: Dee McKinney Cc: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: RE: [SLE] 2 nic <p>Hi Dee, Sorry about the last post. I will *try* to get this one right for you though :-). This is just a guess and if anyone has a more certain answer then listen to them. With the append command in lilo these are thrown straight into the kernel. Without knowing specifics of each case it could be that they either had not setup both NICS properly and resorted to the append command to fix it. They could have the modules built into the kernel itself, which would mean modules.conf would be next to useless. Or they have an older NIC that needs special parameters that need to be passed direct to the kernel before it fully boots. Lots of reasons for why :-). And I bet I have not covered them all. Also, hope that covers my earlier mistake, of which I apologise profusely. Many thanks, Matthew On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Dee McKinney wrote:

OK Folks, one more time.......

I don't need any help getting my servers up with 2 nic's. Do it all the time. I use 3c905B's only. They work great. My questions is why some users have to edit lilo.conf and add the append line when I never had to do this ?

/Dee

---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 :) -- rsweet@socal.rr.com | If you can't learn to do it -o) | well, learn to enjoy doing it Linux, the Choice /\ | badly. of a GNU generation _\_v | |

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