Re: How to change the IPs for a given NIC permanently ?
Thanks, I was wondering about two network cards in my laptop as well...
What I would suggest, is that if you're looking for more info, you could
analyze /etc/pcmcia/network, which is the actual script that does the
setup of the card(s). I haven't really looked at it myself, but from there
you may be able to get a better understanding of how network.opts is used.
Hugo van der Merwe
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:22:46AM +0800, Nazareth Shu wrote:
> > Dear All:
> >
> > Thank Lee Bradshaw & Hugo van der Merwe reply my questions so quickly, after taking a look at both files " /etc/init.d/network "
> > and " /etc/pcmcia/network.opts ", I still have the same questions about the IPs:
> >
> > 1. In my " /etc/init.d/network " simply has two entries :
> >
> > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> > route add -net 127.0.0.0
>
> I thought you were using a desktop machine when you asked about two
> network cards. This network file looks ok for a laptop.
>
> > 2. In my " /etc/pcmcia/network.opts " has following information :
>
> On my potato laptop, there is a comment:
>
> # The address format is "scheme,socket,instance,hwaddr".
>
> You could try something like
>
> case "$ADDRESS" in
> *,*,*,MAC_ADDRESS_FOR_ETH0) # replace MAC_ADD... with the real MAC address
> IF_PORT="auto"
> BOOTP="n"
> IP_ADDR="192.168.2.254"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> ...
> ;;
> *,*,*,MAC_ADDRESS_FOR_ETH1)
> IF_PORT="auto"
> BOOTP="n"
> IP_ADDR="192.168.3.253"
> ...
> GATEWAY="192.168.3.254"
> ...
> ;;
> esac
>
> I don't know what format the MAC address is in. You may want to insert
> an echo $ADDRESS to see what it looks like.
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