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Re: New NIC Has Problems



On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 05:40, David Demland wrote:
> I have a SPARC 5 that I just got a SBUS 100T NIC for. I installed it and it
> seems to work because I get no errors about the second NIC. I am using
> PMFirewall to configure the ipchains on the box. The box does not seem to
> route. When I do an ifconfig I see both interfaces, eth0 and eth1. The two
> interfaces have the same MAC address. How do I tell if both NICs are working
> and how why would ifconfig show the same MAC addresses unless there was a
> problem?

That's normal, see Steven post regarding this issue, but as long as the
two NICs are not on the same subnet this does not hurt.
Are you sure that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is set to 1 ?

-- 
Irvin Probst
There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary
and those who don't.



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