We have a similar situation. We have a Dell Power Edge server, it has dual NIC's on the motherboard. If you ping either card from the outside they respond as expected so either card will handle incoming traffic but only 1 card seems to handles the outbound traffic. It is necessary to obtain/install another package that will allow load sharing between cards or a "fail over" option in the event one of the cards dies. The package has a daemon that runs as a background process and monitors traffic, routing it to the least used card. It can also be set to run in fail over mode. We can only pick one of these modes to operate in, load sharing or fail over but not both. Our package was supplied by Dell but was specific for the installed NIC's, i.e. 3Com, Broadcom, Linksys, etc. Check with the motherboard vendor or the NIC mfg. to see if they have one. Dave 2 cards should work, even on the same IRQ. They DO, however, need different ip addresses. They should then be able to 'ping' each-other, as well as everyone else. Hi, Does Linux shares irq's? I have an Intel motherboard(S845WD1-E) with two network cards onboard. I loaded RH7.3 and I was able to set the both network cards in the setup process of RH. When I am in RH I can use eth0 to go in the internet but eth1 doesn't work to go in the internet. I ran ifconfig to see the setings for the nic's and I see they have the same irq. Also, I can see the RX and TX packets for both nic's, eth0 has packets but not eth1. How can I make the second card work? Please help. Thanks in advance for your help. Fernando _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
