IP Address stuff and eth0 and eth1

jarmstrong · 01-03-2003, 07:23 PM

Where can I find the IP address of a NIC, I find primary DNS IP address but not the NIC IP address
I looked in Kickstart
I looked in Network devices

any help will be great

Working on Home network I have 2 Nics in a RH 8.0 ... Also when I Seem to enable the sencond eth1 (ie Static address) NIC I loose All internet traffice from the primary eth0 DHCP...

am I missing a servic ... I want to point eth1 to gateway threw eth0
Thanks

Jeff

manpreetnehra · 01-03-2003, 09:20 PM

look in /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts

ifcfg-eth0 is the first nic
and
ifcfg-eth1 is the second nic.

use

route add -new 0.0.0.0 dev eth0

RWild · 01-04-2003, 10:17 AM

Jeff,

This seems to touch on problems I am having. Could you (or anyone) explain in newbie terms the difference between NIC IP addresses and DNS IP addresses?

Thanks

R

jetfreggel · 01-04-2003, 11:42 AM

NIC ip is the the address of your Network Interface Card
DNS is a database of ip's so that one computer could find the
other on the net(Domain Network Service)
for further information
www.private.org.il/tcpip_rl.html

manpreetnehra · 01-05-2003, 10:05 PM

A NIC IP Address and DNS IP Address are potentially the same since you are referring to the IP Address which is unique. What you mean to ask is the MAC Address which is the Hexadecimal Unique Address assigned by the manufaturer so theat the DNS can actually translate the 32 bit IP addresses to Computer Addresses which are MAC in Nature