Re: two network cards in system

From: Ulrich--nO--(dot)-sPAM--Link (_at_Epost.de)
Date: 09/28/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 20:24:24 +0200

>>I have installed two network cards in my system and need to know how I can
>>configure them so that one of them is used for private network and the
>>other for public?
>>

> Errm, configure the IP addresses on the cards, one for the public and
> one for the private, using smitty chinet.
>

If you want the machines communicate over the private network, you can
overwrite the ip addresses resolved by DNS in /etc/hosts and then change
the lookup order with a line "hosts=local , bind" in a file
"/etc/netsvc.conf"
By default AIX uses DNS before hosts file. 

---
Uli

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