-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Synister > Syntax Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 5:20 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: second ethernet > > Hello Jeff: > > You are gonig to need to give it an ip address. I know of no > way around that. This isn't true, and is quite commonly done for IDS systems. You should be able to install the NIC, configure it for a static IP, then simply not assign it one. If for some reason this doesn't work, or you get a 168.246.x.x address, you should be able to counter that by assigning it 0.0.0.0: ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 broadcast 255.255.255.255 up We did this all the time for Solaris systems. It should work here too. > As far as leaving your current interface as eth0, and > the new one being set to eth1. It should do this for youy anyway, > however if for some reason it tries to switch them, and that > bothers you, you can use the "Network Control" to tell it what dev > is what, and what each should be aliased to. > > Hope this helps... > > -- > Regards, > SynSyn > Netowork Manager, Server Administrator, Security Specialist > (http://www.teamtrinix.com) > > > On 12/13/05, Jeffrey Ross <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm looking to add a second Ethernet interface to my FC3 > system. The > > interface is going to be used strictly as a capture interface for > > ethereal and as such has no need for an IP address.. > > > > The questions are: > > > > 1) How do I force the existing Ethernet interface (built onto the > > motherboard), which shows up as a via-rhine to remain as > eth0 and the > > new interface which will be an Intel card as eth1 See SynSyn's response. > > 2) enable the card without any addressing (IP or otherwise) > so the card > > remains silent? If you need it to be COMPLETELY silent, then you will have to use iptables/netfilter creatively to block and and all outgoing packets. If you don't care whether it responds to multicast traffic, the comments about should work. > > 3) will this process work for adding multiple additional > interfaces, .... Should. > > ....and > > is there a limit to network interfaces besides physical > space for cards? I don't think so. If there is, I'm sure that you would long have run out of hardware slots before you hit that ceiling. > > > > TIA > > Jeff > > HTH - - Charles Heselton charles.heselton <at> gmail <dot> com CELL: 619-261-6866 PGP KEY: 5A27 58D2 C791 8769 D4A4 F316 7BF8 D1F6 4829 EDCF In memoriam: http://www.militarycity.com/valor/1029976.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQ59453v40fZIKe3PEQLyeACfQ54xdykKOVn6FEG2IVUBwccaiQQAoNXn 8Z0L43nI3souFiOLMvrPOhUl =e8gv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
