From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Feb 18 13:46:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB20C37B405 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:46:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns1.vizion2000.net (dns1.vizion2000.net [64.58.171.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F8043FB1 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:46:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vizion@ixpres.com) Received: from vizion (vizion.vizion2000.net [64.58.171.92]) by dns1.vizion2000.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h1IMDwS24728 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:13:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vizion@ixpres.com) Message-ID: <034001c2d794$aeb7d4d0$15b55042@vizion2000.net> From: "vizion communication" To: Subject: Configuring multi-port ethernet cards. Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:28:30 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK I have not used multi-port ethernet cards before - it should be simple enough but for some reason I am hitting problems. (The FreeBSD installation tool for 4.7 does not help with configuring multiple NICS - it creates a new hosts file each time!!) de0, de1, de2, de3 and le0 are my devices. Ip allocation xxx.xxx.xxx.2 xxx.xxx.xxx.3 xxx.xxx.xxx.4 xxx.xxx.yyy.aaa ccc.ddd.eee.fff as IP Addresses for the devices. 3 NICS are on one sub net and two NIC's on others. If I need to allocate individual hostnames for each IP address how do configure them. Do I do that in /etc/hosts? Does FreeBSD only recognize a single hostname for a kernel? What do I do about loopback? The hostnames are not within the same domain even when there are on the same subnet. Some guidance appreciated. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message