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.
