Sounds like you are moving your default route to the second card or something like that... have a look at your route table before second card is brought up and after..
Dave. On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Paul Davies wrote: > Dear slugs > > When I installed my linux Redhat 8.0 distribution I included one network > card - A realtek 8139. I used > this to connect to my cable modem and the net. > > I then tried to add another identical network card so I can connect it > to my LAN. Unforunately the addition of > this card into the system is seemingly not permissable. If I ever try > to activate the new card I lose my internet > connection. > > I have tried removing both network cards and letting kudzu redetect > them. I then reset all the parameters. > The system does not allow me to have any network cards active for my > internet to work > > I have > > eth0 inactive > eth1 inactive > ppp0 active (connecting through eth0) > > > When I activate eth1 to connect to my LAN - my ppp connection breaks. > It says it is fine in the network > configuration - but of course it isn't. > > > On an identical machine I have installed Redhat 8.0 with another two > Realteks at installation time. I don't > have any of these problems. Is it not yet possible to add another > network card to linux after the system has > been installed? Or does linux have trouble with two network cards of the > same time? > > > Paul Davies > > > > > > > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED] pam_smb / Linux DECstation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
