Re: Potato networking

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 05:38:15PM -0500, John Reinke wrote:
> Well, I've done a complete clean installation of potato from the five
> floppy images over a cable connection. Thanks for all the help.
> 
> I'm in the process of recompiling my kernel to enable IP Masq, but I have
> another problem. I cannot get my computer to use more than one interface
> at a time with potato's interface setup.
> 
> I've read the interfaces manpage, and that helped me to create this
> /etc/network/interfaces file:
> 
> # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
> 
> # The loopback interface
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # The first network card
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> # The second network card
> iface eth1 inet static
>         address 172.16.1.1
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         broadcast 172.16.1.255
>         network 172.16.1.0
>         gateway 172.16.1.1
> 
> 
> I can use ifup for only one of my ethernet interfaces at a time. If both
> are running, I can't ping anything, either local (eth1) or non-local
> (eth0). I have to have dhcpcd runnning to send this, and ifconfig -a
> shows:

Remove the 'gateway' line for eth1.


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