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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams wrote: > My nice new Debian box has three NIC's, one fixed IP and two DHCP. I have two > PCI cards and one ISA. > I haven't set up any sharing of the interfaces or masquerading or bridging, > ipchains are clear (2.2 kernel). I'm confused why a nice new Debian box would have a 2.2 kernel?! If 2.2 sort the speed and duplex with; http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html If 2.4 "apt-get ethtool" and specify it to run in the "interface" script when it is brought "up" to make the relevant settings. You may find ethtool for older kernels I believe. I'm concerned your hardware doesn't just work. Does the switch have upgradable firmware? I would assume the different eth numbers must be a BIOS thing as suggested. Maybe just disable plug and pray in BIOS. I would expect the MAC addresses to always be consistent with the physical card, so if all else fails you can script around it, although you seemed to doubt this for some reason?! As regards dynamic interfaces not getting addresses, you'll have to packet trace the DHCP negotiation to find out what is wrong. Whenever I've been forced to do it, I've always found bugs in the Microsoft DHCP server implementation :-(, but hopefuly they are better these days. Simon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/X7AaGFXfHI9FVgYRAm9WAJ9zFohCO59YUkc4PJope4bUmFFDHwCgqaZw JWgGx/ZabifgMcETGvDVOwU= =3cpC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.