Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Add more NIC

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Hello Dominic,
You were right, the problem is solved ! It was under my nose, but ... 
Many thanks,

OB

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:39:55 +0100
From: Dominic Raferd <dl...@ed...>
Subject: Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Add more NIC
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  Why DEVICE=eth0 for all of your NICs? I think it should be eth0, eth1,

eth2, eth3...

Dominic

On 29/09/2010 14:10, Boursin Olivier wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I would like to know if it is possible to add one or two more NIC in 
> addition of the 3, to build a firewall router with 4 or 5 NIC. I tried

> to configure /etc/sysconfig/nic (files ifcfg-eth3 and ifcfg-eth4) but 
> it is visible as two more eth2 when starting /etc/init.d/network.
>
> Many thanks for your kind answer,
>
> OB
>
> /etc/sysconfig/nic>cat ifcfg-eth0
> DEVICE=eth0
> ONBOOT=yes
> MODULE="8139too"
> DHCP=no
> IP="192.168.0.1"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> BROADCAST="192.168.0.255"
>
> /etc/sysconfig/nic>cat ifcfg-eth1
> DEVICE=eth0
> ONBOOT=yes
> MODULE="8139too"
> DHCP=no
> IP="192.168.1.254"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> BROADCAST="192.168.1.255"
>
> /etc/sysconfig/nic>cat ifcfg-eth2
> DEVICE=eth0
> ONBOOT=yes
> MODULE="8139too"
> DHCP=no
> IP="192.168.9.254"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> BROADCAST="192.168.9.255"
>
> /etc/sysconfig/nic>cat ifcfg-eth3
> DEVICE=eth0
> ONBOOT=yes
> MODULE="8139too"
> DHCP=no
> IP="192.168.10.254"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> BROADCAST="192.168.10.255"
>
> /etc/sysconfig/nic>cat ifcfg-eth4
> DEVICE=eth0
> ONBOOT=yes
> MODULE="8139too"
> DHCP=no
> IP="192.168.15.254"
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> BROADCAST="192.168.15.255"
>
> /etc/init.d/network start
> Starting interface eth0 
> [IPv4]

> [  OK  ]
> Starting interface eth1 
> [IPv4]

> [  OK  ]
>
> Starting interface eth2 
> [IPv4]

> [  OK  ]
>
> Starting interface eth2 
> [IPv4]

> [  OK  ]
>
> Starting interface eth2 
> [IPv4]

> [  OK  ]
>
> Enabling Routing 
> [IPv4]

> [  OK  ]
>
> Disabling ECN
>