Ok, folks, somehow I'm having a brain freeze. I'm having trouble getting
two NICs working in a single box together. Here's the setup:
RH5.2 (Stock, no new software out of the box)
P133, 40MB
2 3COM 3C590-TX Fast Ethernet Cards
Everything else is probably irrelevant hardware-wise.
I'm trying to setup eth0 using DHCP as my main interface to the box (named
Woodstock). The DHCP is working fine.
On the other side, I'm trying to use eth1 with a fixed address (10.0.0.1) to
a subnet (Woodstock) as Master (yes, if you are thinking Beowulf, you're
right).
During bootup, eth0 initializes properly and all is bright and gay. Then
it's eth1's turn, but instead of booting, it says "Delaying initializing
eth1".
OooooK. So, I try ifcfg-eth1 up and get an error that the card doesn't
exist. The file is in place, though, so at least Linux recognizes that the
nic is THERE.....
I have NOT recompiled the kernel, so the fact that there are two identical
cards has me thinking that perhaps my problem lies in not having an alias to
load a second copy of the driver for the card... but can that be it? And
how would I need to configure that? I don't want to hose the system with an
incorrect configuration.
Bill Ward
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