dual nic interface

[Shawn Badger]

It looks like to me that it is configured properly. The only thing I can
think of is that you are pinging something out side of that network and
the gateway is only on port2.



On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 10:25 -0700, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 10:22, you wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 10:08 -0700, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I have a new server which has a broadcom netxtreme II nic with dual
> > > ports. The ports are numbered physically on the box port1 and port2
> > > eth0 = port2
> > >
> > > I assumed eth1 = port1
> > > But when I assign each an IP address, both addresses are only visible
> > > through port 2.
> > > I hope this makes sense.
> > >
> > > port 1 = 10.0.1.75
> > > port 2 = 10.0.1.9
> > >
> > > I only plug a network cable into port 2
> > > I can ping both IP addresses. If I plug a cable into port 1 I cannot ping
> > > anything.
> > >
> > > This is a Dell PowerEdge with the TCP/IP Offload system, which is
> > > dis-abled. I am not familiar with offload engine, is the other port only
> > > used with this system?
> > >
> > > I assumed the dual nic interface just meant I could use each interface
> > > uniquely... Am I wrong? I typically use dual nics, but wanted to try this
> > > one.
> >
> > ----
> > what is output of ifconfig?
> >
> > Craig
> 
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:8B:74:A3:B5
>           inet addr:10.0.1.9  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:202 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:41375 (40.4 Kb)  TX bytes:30067 (29.3 Kb)
>           Interrupt:16 Memory:f4000000-f4011100
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:8B:74:A3:B3
>           inet addr:10.0.1.75  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:7204 (7.0 Kb)  TX bytes:64 (64.0 b)
>           Interrupt:16 Memory:f8000000-f8011100
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:269 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:30288 (29.5 Kb)  TX bytes:30288 (29.5 Kb)
> 
> 
> I can ping both IP addresses with only eth0 plugged in.
> 
> nathan