Dual NIC Cards

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Thu, April 13, 2006 10:41 pm, Bret Stern said:
>
> I have dual network cards in a new box
> i'm putting together. Fedora 4

Me, too.

>
> Both cards are set to activate on boot, but
> only one starts on boot. The other will start
> manually.

Mine both start on boot.

>
> One card has a static ip.
> One card gets assigned an ip address (dhcp)

I assigned static IPs to both. That may be why one of yours doesn't start.
Is the one that starts the static or DHCP assigned nic?

>
> Can both cards have the same hostname?
> (go ahead have fun with that question)

They have to have the same hostname. I don't see an option in the gui setup
to give a different hostname for each card.

>
> I've heard you can only have a gateway address
> on one nic card. Is this correct?

Yes, it's correct.

HTH (maybe to much brevity? but at 11:15pm, my brain is running on 3 cells)

Karl

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