Re: multiple nics

[Martin Albert <MartinAlbert@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 01 Feb 2001, James Mclean wrote:
> just curious to know how two network cards in servers work IE: in the
> ..
> 2 Intel EtherExpress Pro Fast Ethernet Cards ***
>
> would they be on separate IP addresses or the same one?  plugged into the same

Each network interface needs it's own (distinguishably ? what a word :)
IP address, so it knows which packets to take and for you to know what
address to send them to.

My /etc/networks/interfaces:

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.0.1
    netmask 255.255.255.0

iface eth1 inet static
    address 192.168.0.2
    netmask 255.255.255.0

martin