From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 11:59:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA20334 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sam.networx.ie (dublin-ts4-104.indigo.ie [194.125.133.104]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA20316 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 11:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mip1.networx.ie (mip1.networx.ie [194.9.12.1]) by sam.networx.ie (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA18871 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:45:00 +0100 X-Organisation: I.T. NetworX Ltd X-Business: Network Consultancy and Training X-Address: 67 Merrion Square, Dublin 2, Ireland X-Voice: +353-1-676-8866 X-Fax: +353-1-676-8868 Received: from mike.networx.ie by mip1.networx.ie Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 18:39:29 BST From: Michael Ryan Reply-To: mike@NetworX.ie Subject: Two Ethernet cards in one machine on same IP network To: FreeBSD Support Message-Id: Priority: Normal Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've a system (FreeBSD 2.1R) with two NICs: WD8013 and NE2000. I want to plug both of them into the same IP network, on the same cable. I ifconfig the WD8013 (ed0) first, and it goes fine. When I ifconfig the NE2000 (ed1), I get an error message as follows. # cat /etc/hosts 194.9.12.7 h1 194.9.12.8 h2 # ifconfig ed0 inet h1 # ifconfig ed1 inet h2 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists When I then do "ifconfig ed1" the parameters (IP address, netmask and broadcast address) are fine, but I can't ping the IP address (h2), even from the machine itself. The routing table shows that the address (194.9.12.8) is reached via link#1 -- which is sort of correct, as that's the interface to the 194.9.12.0 network, but that's not what I expected (link#1 == ed0). Any ideas? Thanks, Mike ---