Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 19:18:03 -0000 From: "G D McKee" <freebsd@gdmckee.com> To: "Kenny, Gavin (Space)" <KennyGA@logica.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems with a 2nd NIC Message-ID: <017901c08af1$5e141620$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local> References: <ABDA876D71F9D211B39D0090274EA8E203A3062C@Floyd.logica.co.uk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi First of all, although both your NICS work under another OS, there is no guarantee they will work under FreeBSD. Make sure you hard code different IRQ's and Base IO addresses to the cards. If you have two NIC's you need to make sure that the cards are both plugged in to different networks. Look in /etc/rc.conf and copy the line for the first NIC and edit it for the second nic. Make sure you only have one Default route, otherwise you will confuse IP completely. Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: Kenny, Gavin (Space) To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 2:23 PM Subject: Problems with a 2nd NIC This is my first post, so sorry if the answer is "Obvious", but I have gone though the manual and most of the online resources I can find, including the archives of this list and still my problem persists. I am trying to install a 2nd NIC in my FreeBSD machine. It is a 3Com card on isa and comes up as ep1. Everything seems to be detected fine on boot. It is listed by ifconfig -a and I have been able to assign it an IP number. However it won't ping! The original card (same make, comes up as ep0) pings quite happily, but the new card just sits there and then I get "The Host is Down" messages. I know the card is operational as it works fine on its own in another machine. What is going wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated. [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First of all, although both your NICS work under another OS, there is no guarantee they will work under FreeBSD. Make sure you hard code different IRQ's and Base IO addresses to the cards.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you have two NIC's you need to make sure that the cards are both plugged in to different networks. Look in /etc/rc.conf and copy the line for the first NIC and edit it for the second nic. Make sure you only have one Default route, otherwise you will confuse IP completely.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gordon</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=KennyGA@logica.com href="mailto:KennyGA@logica.com">Kenny, Gavin (Space)</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG href="mailto:'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'">'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 30, 2001 2:23 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Problems with a 2nd NIC</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=578371214-30012001>This is my first post, so sorry if the answer is "Obvious", but I have gone though the manual and most of the online resources I can find, including the archives of this list and still my problem persists.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=578371214-30012001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=578371214-30012001>I am trying to install a 2nd NIC in my FreeBSD machine. It is a 3Com card on isa and comes up as ep1. Everything seems to be detected fine on boot. It is listed by ifconfig -a and I have been able to assign it an IP number. However it won't ping! The original card (same make, comes up as ep0) pings quite happily, but the new card just sits there and then I get "The Host is Down" messages.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=578371214-30012001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=578371214-30012001>I know the card is operational as it works fine on its own in another machine. What is going wrong? </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=578371214-30012001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=578371214-30012001>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>help
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