No carrier means, the NIC does not see a switch/hub at the other end. Thus you need to plug in one card into the switch connected to your LAN and the other to the modem.
Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ?? > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 12:53 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: only 1 card is "active", why > > I use freebsd-5.3release as a gateway. I have 2 realtek 8139 card, one > for Internet and the other for LAN. But when I execute "ifconfig", only > 1 card(rl0) is shown "active", and the other(rl1) is shown "no carrier". > And when I exchange the wire, rl0 changes to "no carrier", and rl1 > changes to "no carrier". It seems that only 1 card can be in use. What > can I do? Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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