i'm being lazy now as its just taken me three days to install FWBuilder.
:-)
some one tell me how to install a second NIC.....

i have installed two Netgear FA310TX cards in my redhat 7.2 box.
only one is detected.
i try to add as in network settings in Gnome but it is "not detected".
if i add a eth1 file in network-scripts folder this only ads a device not the hardware.
when loading up the hardware detector Kazor (or whatever) doesnt detect the second card.

If the cards are identical, both should be detected when the module for the first is loaded. Try:

ifconfig -a

This will list the hardware information on all available network interfaces. If there isn't a listing for an eth1, then something might be a little off... Netgear is know to change a chipset slightly and not at all change the model information or packaging. Linksys is infamous for this. I doubt though that you're having this problem, RH's Kudzu has gotten a lot better in the past few years... but I don't think it automagically probes for a second card.

If it is there, first try bringing up the interface and getting it to do something before trying to automate it. For instance:

ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.4 up

and then ping something on that network. Adjust the IP for whichever network you're trying to build.

Offhand, is this going to be a NAT box? Just curious as that's the usual reason for a 2nd card.

Cheers,

Finegan

Hey Finegan,

Thanks for the tip.

at start up only eth0 showed up as [OK]
and there was only one adapter in network config.
this made me think that the second adapter was not being detected.
but when i used ifconfig -a the results showed that eth0 and eth1 where functioning.
i went back to the hardware section and added one manually with the correct type listed.
this worked.
easy when you know how....

i'm going to use the machine as a firewall!
I've just installed FWBuilder (and samba.)
i've used mostly windows machines b4 and am new to linux but am slowly getting used to it.
do u know of any good guides for newbies?