The solution to your issue should be based on your use case - just putting two nics in a machine will not net you any sort of benefit without configuring them for a purpose. If the following info does not help then please provide additional details about what you are trying to accomplish with each nic card (I am marking the report incomplete in the meantime).
If you are attempting to pool a network connection then you will require separate subnets for the Wan facing/LAN facing cards respectively (or LAN/LAN facing if that is your thing). Then you create a route joining the interfaces. There are tutorials on UbuntuForums.org. If you are offering virtualized services then bridge the cards / tap the bridge for each virtual instance. I use the tunctl utility along with brctl to do this like: # set the nics promisc ifconfig <interfaceX> 0.0.0.0 promisc ... # create the bridge & interfaces between bridge and nics brctl addbr br0 brctl addif br0 <interfaceX> ... # you can manipulate the bridge with ifconfig etc, but most importantly can tap it # create tunnel/tap, assign address etc to tap, connect to bridge tunctl -u <user_name> -t tap0 ifconfig tap0 <IP_Address...> up brctl addif br0 tap0 # chmod XXX /dev/net/tun for permissions on the connection Now set your virtual machine instance to utilize the appropriate tap as its network interface, and you have a virtual static instance that isn't going to kill a poor routing table somewhere. If you want to be running two cards at once then just bridge the cards. After you accomplish this your interface names will show in ifconfig, but the bridge and tap objects will be the only items with IP addresses. You may need to dhclient the virtual interfaces to get them blinking on some LAN configs. Either way, this report should be allowed to expire unless additional information is provided. Regards. -- 2 NICS with static IPs = NO DNS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298597 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
