ethernet confusion...

[Michael Soulier]

On 4/16/05, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> m trying to get a second NIC to work as eth1 in a box I am setting up
> as, among other things, a dhcp server.  Having a spot of trouble...
> 
> The card seems to work and the green light comes on when I plug in a
> cable; and I have the following (more or less random) stanzas in
> /etc/network/interfaces:

You're jumping the gun there. You don't even know if your second card
has a driver loaded for it.

If you type

ifconfig -a

Does an eth1 show up? If not, then the card does not have a driver
loaded for it. What model is the card? Google for the correct driver,
load it with modprobe, and see if it shows up in your ifconfig -a
output.

Mike

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