Battle Of The Iethernet Cards

Luke Davis ldavis at shellworld.net
Fri Oct 31 21:31:36 EST 2003


You should do that anyway (statics for the net boxes).
However, a MAC-spesific lease, should be as good as a static IP, if your
router can do that.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:

> Thanks, this is good.  That should take care of the ability to force them to
> use a specific card.  Now I need to stop it from changing IP's all the time.
> Windows was friendly that way.  If the previous IP was available it would
> use it.  Linux is unpredictable.  I think I'll have to go to static IP rout
> on the card that is used for the internet.  I might keep my 2 subnets a
> little longer. Lets see if this works.  I hope so.
>
>  Rejean Proulx
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: "Rejean Proulx" <rejean at interfree.ca>; "Speakup is a screen review
> system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Battle Of The Iethernet Cards
>
>
> > You should set a listen directive in your httpd.conf file and relitave
> > directive in your exim.conf file.
> > for apache this should look like listen 192.168.0.1 replacing the ip
> > with that of the interface you want apache to use.
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003
> > at 11:49:36AM -0500, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> > > I have 2 Lan cards in my Linux machine.  each card is connected to a
> subnet
> > > that has a high speed modem.  Apache and Exim seems to share these 2
> network
> > > cards.  I want to tell my machine that I only want Wan or external
> > > communications to go through one of the cards.  The other card is for
> local
> > > file sharing only, at least as far as Linux is concerned.  The other
> high
> > > speed modem is for the Windows machines.  How do I do this?  For now, I
> had
> > > to disconnect a card, so now I can't get at Linux using Samba with half
> my
> > > network.  I need to control the fact that although I have 2 modems, I
> only
> > > want Linux to use one of them.
> > >
> > >  Rejean Proulx
> > > Visit my family at http://interfree.ca
> > > MSN is: rejp at rogers.com
> > > Ham License VA3REJ
> > >
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