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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is it common for CentOS to give priority to one
particular network card over a second card when activating on boot
up?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have two NIC's in my machine... one is tied into
my windows box with an internal IP using xover cable. The other is tied
into my hub, which then leads out to the internet with a WAN IP. When I
run a constant ping on both IP's from my windows box and watch the boot up phase
of CentOS it gets to activating eth0 and I start getting a couple ping
replies from the WAN IP as it completes activating. Then it activates eth1
the NIC I have my internal IP on and the ping replies for the WAN IP stop
and I then start getting ping replies from the internal IP.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Should that be happening by default? If so,
is there a way to make it so that both NIC's respond to pings off bootup and are
active? In network settings both are marked active and both are marked to
activate on bootup... just seems one is forcing the other offline and im not
sure if that can be corrected... Any info would be great... Thanks
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>James G.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>