hello everyone,
i have 2 nic's that use the same 8139too module to be operated..
so in order to run them i added
in /etc/modprobe.d/
a file with 2 aliases for the 2 nics
alias eth0 8139too
alias eth1 8139too

and I added a udev rule to give the name eth1 to the 2nd card (the 1st card already had a rule)

i still don't get the 2nd rule to be brought up automatically at start up...

ifconfig only returns 'eth0' and i have to manually do

'ifconfig eth1 up' at which time the interface is brought up nicely.. then i do a dchpcd to get a network address and im all set...

but i would like to do this automatically...

note that i know that if i add static ips in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf i will get both ifs up... but i wonder how its gonna happen with the 2nics being 2 dhcp clients...

thank you for your help

i have no idea
i used the alias names eth0 and eth1 from a redhat howto
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HO...net-HOWTO.html

(note my cards are pci not ISA)

at any rate i changed the alias names to eth0_primary and eth1_secondary but no luck.

Side not: for manual connections dhcpcd should be enough, ifconfig <iface> up is not needed (maybe it's called by dhcpcd). At least that stands for here

edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

yup that did it