Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5682
netconf does not properly manage multiple NIC`s
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:52 EDT
This is something I`ve also seen in RH5.2 and thought 6.1 would take care of. My setup is simple: I use my linux box as a masquerading gateway to the internet for my private home LAN. I thus have two NIC`s in my machine. The problem occurs when I try to setup these cards from netconf. The setup utility just doesn`t handle the /etc/conf.modules file right. Even if I correctly setup the two interfaces with their own parameters, I end up with an unusable conf.modules file that only contains the last cards parameters. Here is the content of the file after netconf's update: alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x240 irq=5 alias eth1 ne The io and irq are those of my second card. netconf clearly doesn't 'know' how to put two card's values in there. Here is the correct setup, as described in the Ethernet Howto: alias eth0 ne alias eth1 ne options ne io=0x220,0x240 irq=9,5 I'm sure I am not the only person who tried that setup. Even if this is a minor issue I thought it was important to report it and contribute to the quality of your product. These are the little things that makes a product better in the end. Francois L.
Added Jacques to the CC line so that he knows about this problem.
This is solved in 1.16r10. It is possible to setup multiple nics with prior version though. the key is to supply all paramaters with the first nic and not provide any information, including the kernel module in the second nic. 1,16r10 collects all informations related to one kernel module and merge them in /etc/conf.modules in a single options line. When reading the file the information is still shown along with the first adaptor. Specifying the kernel module for the other adaptor is optional.
This is indeed fixed in 1.16r10 which will be released as errata when testing is finished.
1.16r10-2 released