Is your old LAN a 10Base2 lan? Why would you want to keep that rather than getting nic's for your other systems and going 10BaseT? That way, with an inexpensive ethernet hub, plug your DSL modem into it, then plug your other systems into it. Seems 2 nics should work in your system, but it will believe it's a router with 2 separate nics in it. Then you have lots of configuration to do. I used to have a similar setup until I bought a router and went with a standard network design. DSL Modem > Router > Hub > computers on network. JEFFREY WIMMER ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" <blafont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 5:18 PM Subject: RE: SpeedStream 5200 ADSL Modem > Hal, > > I checked with the DSL provider and the modem does the authentication so I > don't need to worry about that. > > What I am concerned about now though is that the system board has an onboard > Ethernet NIC. I haven't been using that for my home LAN because I needed a > plug-in NIC that supported BNC (old LAN connection). I still need to use > that plug-in NIC for the LAN. When the DSL service is installed they will > give me an Ethernet hand-off to my computer. I just tried enabling the > onboard NIC to see what would happen to my existing LAN connection. When I > rebooted the system with the onboard NIC enabled RH configuration came up > and asked me if I wanted to configure the NIC manually or with bootp/DHCP. I > by-passed this setup because of the DSL service not available yet. > > After the reboot my plug-in NIC was no longer reachable from the LAN. I > rebooted again and disabled the onboard NIC. The LAN then came up fine. > > What I am wondering is when the DSL service is connected (they use DHCP to > provide my computer with the IP address) will that disable my manually > configured NIC? > > Thanks again ! > > Bob > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
