Jeff:

I just tried this on my machine:

/etc/rc.d/init.d: ./network restart
Shutting down interface eth0                               [  OK  ]
Shutting down interface eth1                               [  OK  ]
Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding                           [  OK  ]
Enabling IPv4 packet forwarding                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface lo                                   [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0                                 [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth1                                 [  OK  ]

Then ifconfig shows this:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:DA:BD:88:60
          inet addr:24.218.81.23  Bcast:24.218.83.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:18926 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7778 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xec00

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

Notice still no eth1.  By the way, I thought network was called when the
machine booted up?  Like I mentioned, when I first boot the machine, all
three interfaces (eth0, eth1, and lo) show when I do an ifconfig.  After a
short period, eth1 goes away, and I'd like to try and figure out why.

- Mike

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Jeff Graves wrote:

> Did you do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart after bringing up 
> interfaces?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael J. McGillick [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 1:26 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Ethernet Question - Take 2 :)
> 
> Morning Everyone:
> 
> I just recently did a reinstall of Red Hat 6.1.  Before doing the 
> install,
> I put two new Ethernet cards in the machine, a 3Com Etherlink 
> 10/100 Mbps
> PCI (Model # 3c905C-TX-M) and a 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI (3C90x 
> family).
> Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but my assumption was that these 
> cards
> should use the 3c90x module.  After the install finished, I 
> looked in
> conf.modules and saw the following:
> 
>    alias eth0 3c59x
> 
> Oddly enough, my connection for eth0 seemed to come up fine.  I 
> still
> didn't have anything for eth1, so I went into X and started up 
> the
> control-panel and started up networking.  It showed the second
> interface on my machine, but that it was disabled.  I configured 
> it
> with a static IP address of 192.168.1.1, and selected to have it 
> come
> up at boot.  I then enabled it, and sure enough, the interface 
> showed in
> ifconfig.
> 
> After rebooting, I watched the start-up process, and noticed that 
> eth0 was
> initialized with no problem.  However, with eth1, I got the error 
> message
> about delaying initialization.  Hmmm.
> 
> I thought back to what others had said on this list, and 
> remembered
> something about conf.modules and specifying which module to use 
> for a
> particular card.  Well, I changed the line in /etc/conf.modules 
> to this:
> 
>    alias eth0 3c90x
>    alias eth1 3c90x
> 
> I rebooted the machine, and still got the same problem.  I then 
> further
> remembered about adding a line to lilo.conf for a machine that 
> has two
> Ethernet cards.  So, I added this line to lilo.conf:
> 
>    append="ether=10,0xec00,eth0 ether=15,0xdc00,eth1"
> 
> This time when I rebooted, both cards initialized.  Ok, I was 
> getting
> closer.  I ran an ifconfig when the machine first booted up, and 
> say both
> Ethernet cards listed.  I went off to check the configuration of 
> some
> other stuff, and came back a few minutes later.  When I ran 
> ifconfig
> again, eth1 was no longer listed, and I seemed to have problems 
> getting
> the interface to come back up again.
> 
> Well, stumped at this point, I read the Ethernet-HOWTO.  It 
> mentioned
> about compiling the driver as part of the kernel, so I recompiled 
> the
> kernel, and specified that the 3c90x driver be compiled with the 
> kernel,
> and not be a module.  I also made sure to remove the alias eth? 
> entries
> from conf.modules.
> 
> A subsequent boot revealed that both cards came up just fine.  I 
> ran an
> ifconfig, and both were listed there with no problems.  I worked 
> on my
> machine this morning for about 30 minutes before going to work, 
> and when I
> checked, both interfaces still showed in ifconfig.  I thought I 
> had this
> problem solved.
> 
> When I got to work, I did another ifconfig.  In the listing, eth1 
> is not
> listed as active.  I'm stumped at this point.  Can anyone tell me 
> what
> might be going on here?  I originally had two DaynaPORT PCI cards 
> in the
> machine with the DEC Tulip chipset, and they just worked after 
> the
> install.  Maybe I got lucky, as I never had to do any of this 
> before.  I
> would really appreciate any help or ideas people have on this.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> - Mike
> 
> P.S.
> 
> Did I do something incorrect here by changing what the installer 
> detected
> my card as?  Can both my Ethernet cards use the 3c59x setting 
> without any
> performance loss on the cards?
> 
> 
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