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Re: two ethernet cards



On Tuesday 28 May 2002 23:44, kbdlock@attbi.com wrote:
> I am trying to set up a firewall, however I have hit a
> snag that I cannot seem to get around.  I am trying to
> run two ethernet cards, both of them are Netgear FA310TX
> cards, and both are supposed to run on the tulip
> driver.  When I install the OS, and I set up eth0, it
> works fine, right from the get go.  However, when I try
> to get eth1 to work, it will not do so.  First, I gave
> both different static ips on the same network, and I
> unplugged one and pinged them.  eth0 would respons to
> both ips, but eth1 would respond to neither.  Next I put
> them both on seperate networks.  eth0 worked fine, no
> matter if it was the cable modem or a lan.  eth1 will
> not take a ping.
> the two cards are on seperate ips, eth0 has a DHCP
> server on it's side.  I type ifconfig and I get this (I
> took out lo)
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:53:66:08
>           inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:391 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe800
>
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:61:E9:65
>           inet addr:192.168.1.20  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500
> Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xec00
>
> No major problem here except that eth1 appears to be
> getting no traffic.
>
> I type in "modprobe eth0", and get nothing, but when I
> type in "modprobe eth1" I get "modprobe: Can't locate
> module eth1"
>
> when I type in "dmesg | tail" I get a big list of stuff,
> I believe the last three lines are the most pertinant,
> they are as follows:
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xe800,
> 00:A0:CC:53:66:08, IRQ 11.
> eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829
> advertising 01e1.
> eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xec00,
> 00:A0:CC:61:E9:65, IRQ 10.
>
> Someone told me that it was a routing issue, but I have
> no idea if that's true or not.  I really don't know what
> the problem here is, least of all how to fix it.
> Obviously I cannot get my NAT server to work if it can
> only use one ethernet card.  I really hope someone can
> help me with this because I was really hopeing to
> replace my Win2k server.  If you need any more
> information, please tell me.  Thank you

I have two identical cards on my router.  I have the module listed twice in 
my /etc/modules file.  Otherwise, only one card is initialized.

HTH

bob


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