Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

[Michael West <quagly@mitzit.net>]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:41:30PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Michael West wrote:
> >I am having trouble setting up a system for 3 nic cards with a monolithic
> >kernel ( 2.4.18 )
> >
> >The three cards are identical and use the eepro100 driver.
> >
> >For testing I have them set up on the same sub-net.  All three cards are
> >getting assigned all three ips.
> >
> >I am not passing any kernel parameters
> >
> >Here is my /etc/network/interfaces
> 
> I think broadcast addresses are set automatically, and you don't
> need gateways if you have no external network. The three NICs use
> three separate cables, so these are three different nets:

     Seperate cables to not mean seperate nets.  
     In my case they were all going into the same hub.
     
     Fileservers will often have multiple NICs to get the throughput and full 
     use of raid-5.

     I realize that some of these things are set automatically, but it gives
     me comfort to see them.  One more thing I can enter wrong, but one
     more thing I can see is right. 
          
    Thanks for your reply,

     ~Michael

> ------------------
> auto lo eth0 eth1 eth2
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> iface eth0 inet static
>     address 10.0.1.10
>     netmask 255.255.255.0
>     network 10.0.1.0
> 
> iface eth1 inet static
>     address 10.0.2.10
>     netmask 255.255.255.0
>     network 10.0.2.0
> 
> iface eth2 inet static
>     address 10.0.3.10
>     netmask 255.255.255.0
>     network 10.0.3.0
> ------------------------