Re: [TCLUG:22457] Switching Ethernet Cards

[Perry Hoekstra <dutchman@uswest.net>]

Nate Carlson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Perry Hoekstra wrote:
> > Which one?  I have gone through the PCMCIA How-To but it really doesn't
> > apply because I am try to get the onboard Ethernet to work, not a PCMCIA
> > card.  In addition, I have gone through the various pertinant chapters
> > in "Running Linux" in order to "get a clue" but have had no great
> > revelations.  I have poked around my Red Hat 6.2 installation on my home
> > workstation but it basically showed my what Tom Veldhouse described.
> > That in conf.modules, I have an alias to eth0 for the tulip module.
> 
> Is this a RedHat box?
> 
> If so, create the alias in conf.modules/modules.conf, and then create a
> file called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 with the following:
> 
> DEVICE=eth0
> IPADDR=192.168.100.1
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.100.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.100.255
> ONBOOT=yes
> 
> ..use your own settings, of course.  Or, you can run linuxconf, and do it
> all from there.

No, my workstations at home are RedHat.  I was just poking around to see
how they were setup.  The laptop under discussion is Debian.

-- 
Perry Hoekstra
E-Commerce Architect
Talent Software Services
dutchman@mn.uswest.net