Re: Second Ethernet

[Aaron Matteson <fedora cryptosystem us>]

Axel IS Main became daring and sent these 3.8K bytes,
> I actually tried that, but this stupid bios won't do it. For some reason 
> it won't put the second nic on a different IRQ. Still, I don't think 
> that's the problem any more. I took the second nic out and configured 
> the remaining nic to DHCP. It still didn't pick up the ip, etc., from 
> the cable modem. Man, I miss the days of having 5 IPs and a straight 
> line to the net!

No need to change irq's if this is a PCI nic, they are automatically
asigned differently unless you have a buggy BIOS. And you can bind
your MAC address to a specific ethX.

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