You need to subnet these two NIC cards. They need to have masks that separate them. Where are they going? Are you trying to achieve more bandwidth than the fiber provides? If so, there would have to be greater than an e1000 on the gateway anyway.
Larry S. Brown Dimension Networks, Inc. (727) 723-8388 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Zhi Cheng Wang Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to load both nic on start up? there two ether cards, one with UTP CAT 5 cable connected to eth1 (bcm5700) and one fibre cable connected eth0 (e1000). they have different IP on the same network, e.g. 130.88.231.86 and 130.88.231.85 but only the eth1 revealed by netstat. Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 130.88.231.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth1 130.88.231.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 40 0 0 lo default 130.88.231.249 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0 if i disable eth1, no network available and other commands such as "ls -l" will take ages to respond OR to my it in other words, how can i achieve this: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 130.88.231.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0 130.88.231.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 40 0 0 lo default 130.88.231.249 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0 any suggestions? many thanks cheng -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list