topic configure three ethernet cards in Operating System - Linux

configure three ethernet cards

vvsha — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:49:52 GMT

Hi all

I would like to configure three ethernet cards and among these,one is having static ip address and other card is dhcp endbled.
Both are private lan network.

I am using RHEL4. If I create ifcfg-eth0 , ifcfg-eth1 , ifcfg-eth2 files under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory and then put IP Address and other entries Will it work?

Please help me the to get the complete configuration?

Thanks in advance.

Re: configure three ethernet cards

Court Campbell — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:48:31 GMT

I would be surprised if the files were not already there. But as long as the cards are recognized and the modules are loaded I wouldn't see an issue. You would just need to restart the network daemon afterward or run ifconfig on the interfaces. I would personally just run "setup" from the command line. It gives a nice tui interface.

Re: configure three ethernet cards

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:37:02 GMT

If you want to do it simple, you can also use system-config-network or system-config-network-tui.

Re: configure three ethernet cards

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:43:16 GMT

Shalom,

The presence of these files seems to indicate that the network cards are recognized.

Test them all with mii-tool or ethtool to make sure they have link.

Then I would use system-config-network to finish the final configuration.

SEP