RH - setting IP addresses on second ethernet card

Hi all,

I'm running RH Linux 6.2/ SCYLD Beowulf on a PC using GNOME. I've
installed a second ethernet card. The first is connected to a router,
so th elinux box gets a 198.... address

When booting the system does not know how to assign an IP address to
the second ethernet card, so the second card never comes live.

Can anyone tell me how to assign an IP address to this second card?

Is there a tool in Gnome to do this?

Is there a file that I need to edit?

thanks

--- Gregg

Gregg Germain wrote:

> When booting the system does not know how to assign an IP address to
> the second ethernet card, so the second card never comes live.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to assign an IP address to this second card?

I'd guess you have to create/edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
..
Here's my desktop entry:

========================
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
ONBOOT=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
========================

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s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Hi Tim,

thanks for the infor and the sample file.

Can you tell me what "language" this is? What book can I get to
figure out what ought to go into this file, and what CAN go into this
file?


thanks

Gregg

Timothy Murphy <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
: Gregg Germain wrote:

:> When booting the system does not know how to assign an IP address to
:> the second ethernet card, so the second card never comes live.
:>
:> Can anyone tell me how to assign an IP address to this second card?

: I'd guess you have to create/edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
: .
: Here's my desktop entry:

: ========================
: DEVICE=eth1
: BOOTPROTO=static
: BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
: IPADDR=192.168.1.1
: NETMASK=255.255.255.0
: NETWORK=192.168.1.0
: ONBOOT=yes
: GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
: TYPE=Ethernet
: USERCTL=no
: PEERDNS=no
: ========================

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: Timothy Murphy
: e-mail: (E-Mail Removed)
: tel: +353-86-233 6090
: s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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--- Gregg
"Improvise, adapt, overcome."
(E-Mail Removed)
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Phone: (617) 496-1558

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Gregg Germain wrote:
> Can you tell me what "language" this is?

bash, or more specifically, Unix sh.

> What book can I get to
> figure out what ought to go into this file, and what CAN go into this

Generally those files are autogenerated by the distro's setup routine,
then manipulated by configuration tools. Any decent book on Red Hat can
tell you how to set up your networking.

I'd do it their way if I were you, but be aware of what's going on
behind the scenes (with the files in /etc/sysconfig and /etc/rc.d).
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