From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 13:09:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA23036 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:09:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phil.digitaladvantage.net (phil.digitaladvantage.net [207.40.157.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA23031 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:09:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pamela.digitaladvantage.net (pamela.digitaladvantage.net [207.40.157.16]) by phil.digitaladvantage.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03641; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 13:57:04 -0500 (CDT) From: zeeb@digitaladvantage.net (Russ Panula) To: mike@NetworX.ie Cc: FreeBSD Support Subject: Re: Two Ethernet cards in one machine on same IP network Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 15:18:35 -0600 Organization: Digital Advantage Corporation Message-ID: <32123f8b.6333998@mail.digitaladvantage.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Michael Ryan wrote: >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. > Interesting concept.. I still can't figure out why you'd want to do this though. ;-) >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? > Just as a guess, I think it may be hung up on the broadcast address.. But I can't for the life of me give a good reason why. > >Thanks, >Mike > >--- > Russ