Re: Can't see second ethernet interface

From: Lon Stowell (LonDot.Stowell_at_ComcastPeriod.Net)
Date: 12/26/03


Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 19:18:49 GMT

Roughly 12/25/03 20:05, Steve Pfister's monkeys randomly typed:

> I'm trying to reconstruct a crashed server (Solaris 2.6). Everything
> is mostly back and working after copying everything to a new drive and
> restoring two partitions from backup. The only thing wrong is that it
> only shows the built-in ethernet interface and not the second ethernet
> interface which is on a pci card. If I boot the machine from a cd,
> both interfaces (hme0 and hme1) show up and I can assign addresses to
> them and they function as expected, so I'm thinking it's a config
> issue and not a hardware problem. But nothing I do seems to get it to
> work. How can I get my second ethernet back?

  If you can ifconfig them and assign addresses, what in particular
  is it that convinces you that they are not working?

  In other words, what commands have you run, and what are the results?

  Best to start with the output of ifconfig -a after doing an
  ifconfig hme0 and hme1 plumb.

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