Adding a second nic

Slide slide.o.mix at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 14:57:34 MST 2006


On 8/1/06, Miles Beck <milesbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whats the best way to add a second nic to a Debian box?
>
> I'm wanting to do this so I can ftp to another machine on the network
> behind the router to a non-routable address.
>
> -Miles


Should be as simple as installing the NIC into the box. Add it to
/etc/network/interfaces and ifup <interface_name>.

This will be much easier obviously if your kernel image already has
the NIC's kernel module.

slide


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