Second Ethernet
Aaron Matteson
fedora at cryptosystem.us
Mon Mar 1 05:57:47 UTC 2004
Axel IS Main became daring and sent these 3.8K bytes,
> I actually tried that, but this stupid bios won't do it. For some reason
> it won't put the second nic on a different IRQ. Still, I don't think
> that's the problem any more. I took the second nic out and configured
> the remaining nic to DHCP. It still didn't pick up the ip, etc., from
> the cable modem. Man, I miss the days of having 5 IPs and a straight
> line to the net!
No need to change irq's if this is a PCI nic, they are automatically
asigned differently unless you have a buggy BIOS. And you can bind
your MAC address to a specific ethX.
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