[ale] assigning ip to second interface

[Jennifer Taylor]

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Are you attempting to build a firewall machine?  If so you definitely want your two NICs on different networks.  IPCHAINS handles movement from your internal addresses to the external one.  (? correct if I'm wrong...I seem to have a large layer of fuzz on my brain this morning).  

Out of curiosity, if you already know that and are trying to put both NICs on the same subnet, what are you doing with this machine?  I'm not terribly network savvy myself and always looking to find interesting things to try. 

jenn



>>> Wandered Inn <esoteric at denali.atlnet.com> 08/15 10:43 AM >>>
I'll first admit I'm a bit ignorant here.  I've been doing a lot of
reading on firewalls and such, but, I'm still stumped...

I've got two nics in a single machine working now, I think. Problem is,
when I attempt to start the network for both cards, ifconfig complains
'unknown host' and won't start.  I'm not sure how it determines this.
Does this card have to have an ip that's on a different subnet?  I tried
to assign it an ip that would be on the same subnet as the other card.
(both in /etc/hosts and the configuration setup).

I'm not sure where this thing determines what a 'known host' is.  I've
added the second ip to the /etc/hosts file.

I can't find anything regarding this in the ethernet, net or firewall
howtos.  A pointer to the right doc would be appreciated.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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