Re: Question about networking...

[fiaid@quasi-sane.com]

hmmmm... go into /etc/init.d and grep for ath and see what is going on.  
also, it might be that your DHCP set up is munged.  i need more beer in me 
to think, <3 guinness.

as to why you have an eth0:9, i have no idea.  did you use a script or 
something to get this stuff installed?


> Yeah, ath0 is for my wireless card. I runs on the atheros diver. 
> 
> As for your other question, I have no idea... I didn't set the ip for
> the card at all... It is set up for DHCP. I am running MDK 9.2. I used
> the control center sometimes and edited the ifcfg-eth0 file sometimes. 
> 
> So why do I have an eth0:9?? Where is that specified?
> 
> Ken
> 
> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 13:50, fiaid@quasi-sane.com wrote:
> > > All of the lines with the "zcip" on it are all new. Can someone explain
> > > what is going on? It really slows down my boot up. Any suggestions for
> > > speeding things back up?
> > 
> > what i want to know is why in the hell you are using the 127 class A 
> > broadcast address for your ip address.  what OS are you in?  what program 
> > were you using to effect changes to your networking?  it really looks like 
> > some 3rd party thing barfed all over your init scripts and added some crap 
> > that doesn't need to be there.
> > 
> > > Another odd thing is that when I do ifconfig, I get the following two
> > > entries. What is eth0:9??? I used to get this same thing when I was
> > > struggling to get my wireless card working, ath0 and ath0:9. 
> > 
> > eth0:9 is a subinterface on your card.  think of it as a virtual nic 
> > which you can assign an IP address too and will be able to use as you 
> > would any other nic in your machine.  why do you need a ath0 and an ath0:9 
> > for your wireless card?  
> > 
> > Tighe
> 
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