Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:22:27 -0800 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com> To: "Kenny, Gavin (Space)" <KennyGA@logica.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems with a 2nd NIC Message-ID: <3A771473.FA136B86@home.com> References: <ABDA876D71F9D211B39D0090274EA8E203A3062C@Floyd.logica.co.uk>
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It is not easy to tell for sure, so you will have to corner the problem. First, I assume that the cards are *not* on the same network, you may try to switch the configuratios/cables and ping again the cards. suerte raymundo > "Kenny, Gavin (Space)" wrote: > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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