Number of NIC's Limitation

[JiggyPoo]

Our Mandrake server has 5 intel nic's on it (necessary for the host of services going to be running on the box). Mandrake 9.2 sees 5 during setup, but only starts four when booted. Any ideas on this?

Thanks for your help.

PS - This is the downloaded version of Mandrake 9.2

 

[clonny2]

Make sure that in the ifcfg-eth[X] files look for ONBOOT="yes"

In RedHat the files are /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1 etc...

Mandrake should be the same, since it is originally based on RedHat.

try this command:
grep ONBOOT /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg*

if this is where Mandrake keeps its files.

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[JiggyPoo]

I have checked the directory...it only shows four ifcfg-eth# files. When in the installation it said it had found 5 nic's but when the wizard lead me through the config, I only counted 4. Is there an inherent limit in Mandrake Download of 9.2?

Thanks for your help on this.

 

[JiggyPoo]

I have checked out the ifcfg listings and foudn there was not ifcfg-eth4 for the fifth card. I copied the first and changed the bound eth* and IP and rebooted. It shows the eth4 is being initalized on boot, but the IFCONFIG shows only eth0 to eth3. Any ideas?

 

[piti]

what's in the logs? i have only 4 nics but plus some ppp and tun interfaces and it's workign fine on mdk 9.1
i suggest checking the logs first

how about ifup eth4? that's not working?

 

[ericbrunson]

Our Mandrake server has 5 intel nic's on it (necessary for the host of services going to be running on the box).

This is off topic, but are you aware you can assign multiple ip addresses to the same nic? You only need different cards if they need to be on different network segments.

Just wondering...

 

[JiggyPoo]

We don't need that. We need to have multiple nics to support the VMware hardware requirement for virtual nics. Thanks though!