On Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:17 am, you wrote: > Well before I move on to connection sharing, shouldnt tha LAN be working > first ? > > I tried switching the cards in the pcmci slots, to see if that 3rd eth wold > go away ,, still there !! > where the hell did this come from ? > Try executing the following when you make changes to the network /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart Why are you using pcmcia cards? Or is this a portable computer? I thought connection sharing would set up the card??? cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts look and see if you have ifcfg-eth1 if you don't cp ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1 #===== ifcfg-eth1 ======== DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 ONBOOT=yes #====================== Then execute /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart Then see if you can ping the computers -- Gerald Waugh Connecticut USA
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