From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 11:22:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808E237B503 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:22:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.177.141.133]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010130192017.CYST11986.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:20:17 -0800 Message-ID: <3A771473.FA136B86@home.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:22:27 -0800 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kenny, Gavin (Space)" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Problems with a 2nd NIC References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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