Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:28:30 GMT From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: "Kenny, Gavin (Space)" <KennyGA@logica.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems with a 2nd NIC Message-ID: <E14Nblm-000A5x-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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Are the 2 nics on the same network ? They cannot be. Cliff > 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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