Installing dual NICs on a PC with Redhat operating system

[Derrick_Ssebuguzi]

Hello Guys,

Am trying to install a second NIC on a PC that already has one. The adapter is a D-Link DFE-530TX PCI card and am running Redhat 2.6.9-5.ELsmp. After installing the card into the PCI slot, a cable was connected and the two LEDs on it started blinking. However i could not access the internet using this new card. The system only recognizes the old one. Linux Drivers (rhinefet.tgz in source code)for the adapter were obtained from the CD that came with it. Then the following was done as per the readme file;
1. Created a temporary directory: using mkdir /temp
2. Changed to the temporary directory: using cd /temp
3. Copied driver (rhinefet.tgz) from disk to /temp
4. Untar the archive file: using tar xzvf rhinefet.tgz
5. Changed to src: using cd src
6. Compiled the driver source files and it generated rhinefet.o and rhinefet.ko files : using make and then make install commands
7. A copy of the *.o and *.ko files was also copied to the installation path /lib/modules/2.6.9-5.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/net/

However from the configuration file /etc/modprobe.conf the new NIC was still not recognized even though the two LEDs on it are blinking when a cable is connected.

[Rubberman]

You need to change your routing rules. See the route command man page for details. Depending upon what you want, you might be better off to "bond" the two network cards to provide a single network interface, but with increased throughput and reliability.

[Lazydog]

Post the output from the following:

ifconfig -a