Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-06-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 25 May 2009 08:37:33 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Frank Miles wrote: > > I recently added a second networking card to a hardware-test PC. This > > elderly machine > > had been working reasonably well. The second networking card is for eth1,

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-29 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks, Adrian. I was sure that it wasn't just the firewall at this point - that it was necessary to kill eth1 to get eth0 fully functional. I was wrong. This is now just a firewall problem. And this is a "handcrafted" beast, with lotsa rules. I wouldn't dream (well, not yet anyway) of asking

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-28 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/5/28 Frank Miles : > Regrettably, the problem persists - though possibly with a different > threshold of sorts, as pinging now seems to work.  However- >        apt-get update > still hangs.  I have to kill BOTH the firewall and eth1 in order to > make this work (not seeming to wait indefinite

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-27 Thread Frank Miles
Following up, particularly on Adrian Levi's suggestion to eliminate the gateway spec in /etc/network/interfaces: Thanks, Adrian! Your idea makes sense. Trying it: it changes the routing table exactly as you described, causing my routing table to match yours (excepting, of course, the specific I

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-27 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/5/27 Frank Miles : > Sure, can provide more info... > > /etc/network/interfaces : > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > auto eth0 > #iface eth0 inet dhcp > iface eth0 inet static >        address xxx.yyy.zzz.32 >        network xxx.yyy.zzz.0 >

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-26 Thread Rich Griffiths
On Tue, 26 May 2009 18:20:07 +0200, Frank Miles wrote: > Sure, can provide more info... > > /etc/network/interfaces : > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network interface > auto eth0 > #iface eth0 inet dhcp > iface eth0 inet static > address xxx.yyy.zzz

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-26 Thread Frank Miles
Sure, can provide more info... /etc/network/interfaces : auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth0 inet static address xxx.yyy.zzz.32 network xxx.yyy.zzz.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcas

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Do you have network-manager installed? It's not very good with setups with mixed static/dynamic ips. If you've got network-manager, remove it and set things up manually. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the after

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-25 Thread Matthias Feichtinger
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Frank Miles wrote: I recently added a second networking card to a hardware-test PC. This elderly machine had been working reasonably well. The second networking card is for eth1, etc., and /sbin/ifconfig shows things as properly connected, with eth0 b

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-25 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,22.May.09, 09:25:29, Frank Miles wrote: [snip troubles with two network cards] Please provide your /etc/network/interfaces And also add the output of 'route'. It seems to me that somehow all traffic is routed via eth1, instead of only 192.x.x.x. Sjoerd signatu

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Frank Miles wrote: > I recently added a second networking card to a hardware-test PC. This > elderly machine > had been working reasonably well. The second networking card is for eth1, > etc., and > /sbin/ifconfig shows things as properly connected, wit

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,22.May.09, 09:25:29, Frank Miles wrote: [snip troubles with two network cards] Please provide your /etc/network/interfaces Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-22 Thread Frank Miles
I recently added a second networking card to a hardware-test PC. This elderly machine had been working reasonably well. The second networking card is for eth1, etc., and /sbin/ifconfig shows things as properly connected, with eth0 being the outside interface and eth1 being an internal 192.168