[ale] Second Ethernet on Sparc IPX and Redhat 6.2

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Ben Conrad writes:
 > Folks,
 > 
 > I just installed RH 6.2 on a Sparc IPX last night.  It was installed with
 > only the built in eth0 adapter.  I want to add another sbus adapter (combo
 > ethernet/scsi) card in so I can get some firewalling going.  What should I
 > do?  
 > 
 > I think I'm supposed to copy the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
 > to ifcfg-eth1 but I don't know what to put in the ifcfg-eth1 because eth1
 > will be using a static IP and the current eth0 is using DHCP for ease of
 > setup.  Also, am I supposed to do something with silo.conf?  I don't have a
 > gui installed so all the steps I will take would be via the shell.
 > 
 > Thanks much!
 > 
 > Ben.
 > 

I don't know where there is a template file, but here's what I use in
a kickstart script:

#
# *** CGI *** Private LAN for heartbeat
# Installed from kickstart configuration
#
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=10.0.0.255
IPADDR=10.0.0.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=10.0.0.0
ONBOOT=yes



-Eric.

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