Hi I am new to linux world I am facing difficulty in adding IP's in the nic
I have one nic that I connect my Internet with pppoe my lan card has 2 rj45 ports but only in one port i connect so how can I place some pvt ip that is 10.1.xxx.xxx with netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in my lan card though I tried placig it in interference but it was not at all comming up even after reboot so some one who can help me out in this I want to ping switches ad routers in LAN via some script or etc that is futher part if some one can still help me with this
Thanks in advance

It would depend on the model and make of the ethernet card. If you have one of them working then we might assume that eth0 has some address. If you have the network manager then you could use it or possible use command line to establish the IP/subnet/gateway. To make it available on reboot then you'd have to edit a few files maybe.

Tell us the make of the network adapter. Usually some entry in the command lspci should show it. I'd suspect that the second port should be available for use in most common adapters.

Yes i eth0 having address but what happens is when i connect pppoe(client) from gui the private IP doest connect if i disconnect pppoe and when i connect eth0
it connects I wat the pvt ip's to be connected when pppoe connects so i can browse as well as pvt ip's i rage 10.xxx.xxx.xxx
so how that can be done in pppoe or any other way that INTERNET remains with pppoe but also connects and ping to pvt ip's ?

When i connect to pppoe I am not able to ping the pvt ip from other machine I want it to ping it when pppoe connects can some get anyhelp or any idea how ca it be doe ?

please post the output from the following command using [ code ] tags.

ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr fc:aa:14:64:0f:a6
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:73:3a:aa
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:16 Memory:f7d80000-f7da0000

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:73:3a:ab
inet addr:xxx.x.xx.xxx Bcast:xxx.x.xx.xxx Mask:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10440940 errors:0 dropped:3891468 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1291321 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3700431605 (3.7 GB) TX bytes:99980997 (99.9 MB)
Interrupt:17 Memory:f7d20000-f7d40000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:12590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1464699 (1.4 MB) TX bytes:1464699 (1.4 MB)

Coonect up all your interfaces as to how you would like them to be connected and then run

Sorry to ask you can you give me one eg with eht2 though pppoe is conected (dialed)