On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:26:43PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Arsalan Lodhi wrote: > >i guess not -- htis is what i've > > > >auto lo > >iface lo inet loopback > > > ># The primary network interface > >auto eth0 > >iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > >what should i add in ?
> You must have an entry for eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces for it to be > activated. > > man interfaces > > is a good starting point. The entry will depend on what you are doing > with that interface. That is, is it a fixed ip or using dhcp? do you > want it to start automatically? or manually? etc etc etc. You can use ifconfig to do this stuff manually also, but that can be a pain. Your eth0 setup shows what to put in the 'interfaces' file if you want to use dhcp. To assign a static address, you'd do something like: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 172.18.1.35 netmask 255.255.0.0 network 172.18.0.0 broadcast 172.18.255.255 gateway 172.18.100.1 pre-up /usr/local/sbin/up-firewall.sh The 'auto' line says to bring the interface up automatically at boot. Comment that out if you want to bring the interface up/down manually, e.g. 'ifup eth1'. There's more here than you need; you'll want to chop the pre-up bit unless you're familiar with how to set up an iptables script, for example. -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]