dhcp on one of 2 nics

[Drew Tomlinson]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Vescovi" <vescovi at ctcnet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:06 PM


> I finally got cable modem access here in the backwoods of west-central
> PA.
>
> I want to set up my Dell Latitude running 4.8 as a gateway doing PAT and
> using ipfw.
>
> I have 2, 3c589c cards and need one to get an address from the cable
> company via DHCP.
>
> The other nic will be configured as the gateway for my home net.
>
> Problem one:
> Card 2 is recognized, but I get this message "No free Configuration for
> card 3Com corp' and no device id is assigned.
> It doesn't matter which slot the card is in, it seems to only recognize
> the first and give it device id ep0.
> I removed the 'default' setting from pcic1 in the kernel config as
> follows:
>
> device          pcic0   at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000
>         device          pcic1   at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e2 iomem 0xd4000
>
> But it's still not recognized.  Any suggestions?

I don't really know about this one but I don't any changes are needed in
your kernel config.  You must have the right driver compiled in as it
recognizes one card.  If the cards aren't plug-n-play, are you sure both
cards are set up to use different interrupts and memory areas?  Are both
cards seen in your dmesg output?

> Problem 2 is how do I configure one nic for dhcp and the other for
> static.  I can do the static config,
> but how do I config the system to have static on card 1 and dhcp on card
> 2?

man rc.conf and man dhclient.  You use rc.conf to specify settings for each
NIC and dhclient will get setup info from a DHCP server.

HTH,

Drew