On 2002.04.20 16:30 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 20-Apr-2002 Pollywog wrote:
> When I got DSL, I had a problem with my two NICS's. Things would
usually
> end up with the NIC's being assigned the wrong addresses.
> What I did to correct this mess was to have the DSL modem's NIC get
> configured in /etc/init.d/local.
>
>
> What is the best way to avoid this type of problem? BTW, the internal
> network's NIC is a 3Com and I compiled the kernel with support for that
> NIC, but the DSL NIC is a Kingston card and uses the Tulip driver,
which I
> did not compile into the kernel (this is the card that gets configured
> from /etc/init.d/local
>
the way this works is the first driver to be loaded gets eth0. So the
3Com you
compiled into the kernel SHOULD be setup as eth0.
It does now, but when I had support for both cards compiled into the
kernel, the 3Com card did not get eth0, it got eth1 and the DSL's NIC got
eth0 and I could not think of a way to control this. That is why I now
have only the 3Com card's support built into the kernel, so it gets
configured first. If I add another NIC later, I will probably have to
also compile it as a module and have it get configured in
/etc/init.d/local after the Kingston NIC's config lines. I just don't
know if that is the correct way or the best way to do it.
thanks
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