On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Kevin Fife wrote:

> I have a 3Com 3c509 Ethernet card that I couldn't configure during the
> installation. I have since programmed the card to have a io address of 0x350
> and an irq of 7.

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 put.ip.ofcard.here netmask put.the.netmask.here up

ie, for my local network NIC on my box, the line looks like:
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

I then follow it up with a routing command.  I believe it was:
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 eth1

I placed those command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but there might be a better
place for them.  I got my references from the Linux Documentation Project
howtos at metalab.unc.edu/LDP.   That's the first place I try and look
before I ask a question to a list/group/channel.  Relevant information
regarding setting up your network can be found in the NET-3 howto.  

> One last question. Does booting from a bootdisk rather than a hard disk
> affect the performance of the system after boot? 

I don't see how.


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