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My nice new Debian box has three NIC's, one fixed IP and two DHCP. I have two
PCI cards and one ISA.
Every time it boots, it uses a different PCI NIC for the fixed IP - it's
getting a PITA because I have to scramble around under the desk changing the
Cat5 all the b.. time.
I've even got it now that it only brings up the fixed IP automatically but
that's no odds either.
What I can't understand is that when I ask ifconfig for confirmation, it
claims to have used the same hardware address as last time - but it can't
because I had to switch the cable to the other PCI card!!!
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:1A:4E:55
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xdf80
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:4F:04:C4:1C
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00
This is the ISA card - it can only do 10Mbits so I don't want to use this one
as the default/fixed IP.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:55:F4:29
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x300
On top of that, it also seems to switch DOWN the speed of the port - if I
fiddle with the box (using a second cable) I can get it back to 100Mbits but
if I restart it with the same port, the lights come on for 100 but it won't
respond to the LAN. When I switch the cable, lights come on for only 10, but
I can make a connection. If I grab a second Cat5 and plug it in to either of
the other cards, it always works.
The ISA card never seems to be a bother (actually, it doesn't always come up
when requested automatically either).
What's going on?
I haven't set up any sharing of the interfaces or masquerading or bridging,
ipchains are clear (2.2 kernel).
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Neil Williams
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