From: Sridhar (ssridhar@raven.pnu.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 11:10:58 EDT
One reply from Timothy Brown <brownt@celerent.com>
"With both NIC cards in the system, you will need to reconfigure your
network
to supply the IP address to alt0 instead of fta0. You could run sysman and
configure the network that way, or vi rc.config and change it manually...
As long as alt0 is in your kernel, you shouldn't need to reboot. Just
restart the network, #rcinet restart"
He also pointed to another SUMMARY post:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/530/2002/1/0/7695101/
Original question:
> We have a GS-140 running UNIX 5.1. We have a 100MBt FDDI for network
> connection. This machine also has a GIG FDDI unused. I would like to
> experiment with the GIG connection. After getting the cable connection
from
> networking team, how do I change from fta0 to alt0 (both now showing up in
> ifconfig -a)? Can I simply change fta0 to alt0 in /etc/rc.config, bring
down
> the machine, change cables and reboot? Is there anything else that needs
to
> be done?
>
> I eventually want to move this GIG card to a production machine (also a
> GS-140 and UNIX 5.1) which currently has only a 100MBt FDDI. Would I be
able
> to copy the alt0 line from /sys/conf/HOSTNAME of the other machine to this
> machine's HOSTNAME file, rebuild kernel and reboot? Is there anything else
> involved?
>
> thanks
> SS
>
>
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