Have you always had both the ethernet cards plugged into the same hub? If
this is the case there may be a good chance that your network is running
off the 3com card and not the ne2k, and you need to adjust the eth0 and
eth1 interfaces to deal with the change you have made.
Jay Schulist
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
>
> This is something for the gurus...
>
> Ever since I installed Linux, there has been 2 network cards in the
> machine. One 3Com 509 and one NE2000 compatible. The latter has never
> been used, nor has there been any configurations for it.
>
> Yesterday I took it out and put it into another computer.
>
> The NETWORK STOPPED WORKING!!!
>
> On ping (local network) it was reporting,
>
> "Destination host not reachable."
>
> I assumed that the 3Com card was bust, on the receiver side, since
> packets were being sent out, but not received.
> I went and bought a new 3Com 509 card. Same problem.
>
> After I while, for an unknown reason (subconscious hunch), I put both
> the cards in, configured the 'eth1' as well through linuxconf, and it is
> now running again.
> A far as I understand, I don't have any routing enabled (gated or routed
> is not started).
>
> Why could this be the case??
>
> How do I trace this and similar problems?
>
> Niclas
>
>
> P.S Any bouncing from my Mail Forwarder due to the above is sincerely
> regretted, and my apologies to everone affected.
>
>
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