enable eth1 and dhcp on start up

dag33k · 03-05-2004, 03:13 PM

Aloha-
I am running slackware 9.1 and am useing an older motherboard that had ethernet on board. The ethernet that was on board is no longer there (rj45 jack) but the controller is so I replaced it with a pci ethernet card. My problem is that when ever I start up I have to bring eth1 up and dhcpcd eth1 to get it working. This is a pain and a waste of time. Is there a way to bring this online at start up? or Maybe a script I could write to do this for me?
thanks
dag33k

synaptical · 03-05-2004, 03:16 PM

you can set it up in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1

dag33k · 03-05-2004, 03:39 PM

Thanks for the quick reply synaptical, but could you tell what to edit. Sorry still a newbie here but very willing to learn. I do learn best by example or the hard way(as mom used to say) hehe.
dag33k

P.S. if you need a copy of rc.inet1 let me know. TIA

synaptical · 03-05-2004, 03:57 PM

Code:

# Edit these values to set up your second Ethernet card (eth1),
# if you have one.  Otherwise leave it configured to 127.0.0.1,
# or comment it out, and it will be ignored at boot.
#IPADDR2="127.0.0.1"  # REPLACE with YOUR IP address!
#NETMASK2="255.255.255.0" # REPLACE with YOUR netmask!
# Or, uncomment the following lines to set up eth1 using DHCP:
#USE_DHCP2=yes
# If your provider requires a DHCP hostname, uncomment and edit below:
#DHCP_HOSTNAME2="CCHOSTNUM-A"

so if the card has a static IP, enter that where it says IPADDRR2= and uncomment the netmask. or if it gets an IP through DHCP, leave all that commented and uncomment USE_DHCP2=yes. i'm pretty sure that's all there is to it.

dag33k · 03-05-2004, 04:39 PM

I got it to work! Thanks to your help. The problem was I was looking at rc.inet1, but needed to edit rc.inet1.conf. This is the change I made:
# Config information for eth1:
IPADDR[1]=""
NETMASK[1]=""
USE_DHCP[1]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[1]=""
Thanks for the help
A Hui Ho
dag33k

synaptical · 03-05-2004, 04:51 PM

thanks for the report -- i always just edited the rc.inet1 file directly, but it's good to know there's another way to do it that works.