Charles, Thank you for your detailed response. Your answers to Q 3-7 close those issues. On Q2, yes I really mean to run dhcpd to issue IP#s to selected client machines on the internal network. I'm confident that my dhcpd.conf is correct, and it is called by "dhcpd eth1". This was running under RH7.0. I installed the dhcpd RPM off the 7.3 CD (don't have version info here) Since I first wrote, I went back to the new server and banged my head on it for a couple more hours, remarkably getting answers to some of your questions. 1a) ifcfg-eth1 does have "ONBOOT=yes". I will post it when I get back to the server in the morning. 1b) /sbin/ifconfig shows only "lo" and "eth0" and nothing for "eth1" 1c) There is no /etc/modules.conf file on my machine. 1d) I think the module is 8139too, because when I temporarily pulled the Realtek card (eth1) I got a message during the attempt to startup ETH1 complaining about that module by name (did not get complete message). I did some fiddling with modprobe (which I don't understand) after reading section 2.3 of the Ethernet How-To (Using more than one Ethernet Card per machine). From the startup post screen I can see the Ethernet cards are on IRQs 10 & 9, and from the ifconfig I see that eth0 is 0x8000, but I couldn't get the address for eth1. Do I need it? Thank you for your help; obviously Q1 is the key to getting running now, Dick
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 06:45:59PM -0500, Richard Goodman wrote: dick> 1) During startup eth0 comes up but eth1 does not. My notes on the dick> previous installation [year ago?] don't show that I did anything dick> special when I installed the Realtek (was previously also DEC 2104x) dick> but that doesn't mean I just didn't write it down.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and make sure "ONBOOT=yes" is in there. Could you post that file so we can look at it?
Run "/sbin/ifconfig eth1". What does that show? If it says "Device not found" then most likely the driver module isn't loading. If not, check /etc/modules.conf. It should have a line for eth1 like so:
alias eth1 foobar
where "foobar" is the name of the driver module for the Realtek. There are a couple different possibilites for the driver, since they made some different cards with different chipsets. Try ne2k-pci and 8139too.
You can also try running /usr/sbin/setup as root and going to "Network configuration".
dick> 2) dhcpd won't run, but I assume that's related to #1. Was surprised dick> that dhcpd wasn't loaded during install, as I flagged eth1 as dhcp.
What do you mean you flagged eth1 as dhcp? That sounds like you mean "Use DHCP to get the address for eth1". If that is the case, then you want a DHCP *client*, not the dhcpd server. That would be either pump or dhcpcd or dhclient. pump, at the least, should always be installed by Red Hat's installer.
If you really wanted a DHCP server, then you would have to install Red Hat's package dhcp-2.0pl5-8.i386.rpm (or my packages for the latest ISC release 3.0.1rc9, available at ftp://angus.ind.wpi.edu/pub/packages/isc/dhcp). You need to be careful that you configure the server correctly to only listen for requests on your internal LAN eth1 (for my packages, edit /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd and put INTERFACES=eth1 in there).
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