Seems an odd one. Are both cards the same make/model? I am wondering what you might try. I wonder what happens if the card that is presently configured as eth1 is used as eth0. Would you still get the problem when plugging the cable into the other one?
On 4 Jan, 09:41, SPX2 <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a debian install on a machine with 2 eth cards,eth0 and eth1. > eth0 has been configured using pppoeconf for a pppoe connection which > is working fine. > eth1 was meant to be there in order to provide for a nat so that an > internet connection can be provided to another computer also using > debian. > The moment I plug in the cable to eth1 , eth0 stops working. > (Is this caused maybe by hotplug ?) > The goal was to actually get eth1 working also without breaking eth0's > connection and afterwards make a nat using iptables. > The same thing was done using Slackware and netconfig+pppoeconf and > there > were no problems. > The pppoe is up using the pppd service and it was configured using > pppoeconf. > > I tried to find out the problem by trying to find out which file is > beeing > modified when I plug the cable in eth1 so I did > strace ifconfig eth1 2>&1 | grep open > I got a list of files and I suspect /proc/net/if_inet6 is the file > that ifconfig modifies and reads thata from. > So I decided to do sudo lsof | grep if_inet6 in order to find out > what process uses the hotplug feature to autodetect when I put the > cable > inside eth1. > Unfortunately I find no process that did this. > > What should I do so that the internet connection doesn't drop when I > plug in the cable for eth1 ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
