Re: 2 Network Cards

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:37:03PM -0800, Raquel wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:09:00 -0800
> Raquel <raquel@thericehouse.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have 2 network cards in this machine.  Currently only one of those
> > cards is setup but now I have need to setup another.  The
> > current /etc/network/interfaces looks like:
> > # The primary network interface
> > allow-hotplug eth0
> > iface eth0 inet static
> >         address 99.999.999.137
> >         netmask 255.255.255.248
> >         network 99.999.999.136
> >         broadcast 99.999.999.999
> >         gateway 99.999.999.999
> >         dns-nameservers 99.999.999.999 99.999.999.999
> >         dns-search domain.com
> > 
> 
> Let me make a few changes.  In order to get eth1 to also work, can I
> add to /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> # The secondary network interface
> allow-hotplug eth1
> iface eth1 inet static
>         address 99.999.999.138
>         netmask 255.255.255.248
>         network 99.999.999.136
>         broadcast 99.999.999.999
>         gateway 99.999.999.999
>         dns-nameservers 99.999.999.999 99.999.999.999
>         dns-search domain.com
> 
> Is there anything else I need to watch out for?  I know that the
> firewall needs to be changed.
> 

Looks fine to me, as long as all the "9"s are place-holders for real
numbers.  It doesn't make sense to have two NICs in one box on the same
network.

Doug.