Easy to determine which card is which.
Bring a NIC up with a static IP that is valid for your LAN.
Connect one card to your hub/switch.
Verify link light is on.
Ping a computer on the LAN.
If you get a response, you know which card has the IP you assigned - the
one that worked. Otherwise, it's the other one.
Test #2 - if the NIC has the MAC address printed on it (the newer ones
seem to), Linux assigns eth0 to the lowest MAC address, eth1 to the next
highest, etc.
George
"der.hans" wrote:
>
> Am 18. Sep, 2002 schwätzte cliff rogers so:
>
> > Brian, I took your advice over the weekend and D/L'd the clarkconnect
> > distro. It was able to format my HD and load and even booted up. My only
> > problem was that I couldn't figure out how to finish whatever config it
> > needed to see my LAN however it seemed to see Cox as it picked up a "good"
> > IP address. My question is since I have to use 2 NIC cards in this box would
> > I be better off to move my NIC from my desktop to the Linux box so that I
>
> > have 2 different types of NICs or should I leave the 2 D-Link NICs in the
> > Linux box. Linux does see both cards I just can;t figure out how to
> > configure them both (I don't know which I am working with for sure). Anyway
> > I just thought I would ask. Thanks for the help. Cliff
>
> 2 NICs of the same type should be OK. It's actually a little better as it
> can save you a few k in your kernel, but that's majorly negligible with
> newer boxen.
>
> They'll be eth0 and eth1.
>
> You didn't use that box for your email, so I don't know what dist you're
> using. Let us know which dist and version you're running and we can help you
> figure out how to configure the network properly.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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