On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 05:38:15PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > Well, I've done a complete clean installation of potato from the five > floppy images over a cable connection. Thanks for all the help. > > I'm in the process of recompiling my kernel to enable IP Masq, but I have > another problem. I cannot get my computer to use more than one interface > at a time with potato's interface setup. > > I've read the interfaces manpage, and that helped me to create this > /etc/network/interfaces file: > > # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) > > # The loopback interface > iface lo inet loopback > > # The first network card > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > # The second network card > iface eth1 inet static > address 172.16.1.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 172.16.1.255 > network 172.16.1.0 > gateway 172.16.1.1 > > > I can use ifup for only one of my ethernet interfaces at a time. If both > are running, I can't ping anything, either local (eth1) or non-local > (eth0). I have to have dhcpcd runnning to send this, and ifconfig -a > shows:
Remove the 'gateway' line for eth1. -- Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor. Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day. Netscum, Bane of Elves.