On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 02:52, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > Hello, > > I have two network cards on my machine. Both of them are ne2k-pci. While > one of the card connects to the internal network, the other one is > connected to the internet. Till recently, one of the cards was a realtek > 8139 and the other ne2k-pci. My /etc/network/interfaces had entries like > > iface eth0 inet static > address... > > iface eth1 inet dhcp > > Correspondingly /etc/modules.conf had these entries: > > alias eth0 ne2k-pci > alias eth1 8139too > > As now both of them are ne2k-pci, I changed the /etc/modules.conf as > > alias eth0 ne2k-pci > alias eth1 ne2k-pci > > But, now machine cannot connect to the internet through dhcp. How does > one go about setting the interfaces when one or more cards are > identical? man interfaces did not help me :-( That should be fine, but since the system is not able to differentiate based on card type, it is probably assigned eth# based on the PCI slot which means that it's possible that the card that used to be eth0 is now eth1, so just switch your cables probably. -Mark
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