This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFEDA3.CB58EF9E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Yes. -----Original Message----- From: Alan Garrison [mailto:aeg@lbwl.com] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 10:59 AM To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu Subject: Prolly a silly question, but... With the NIC problem I've been having, I was trying to come up with an alternate solution (short of replacing the $25 Tulip-based card with a $75 3com). I assume I can do the following: Get an older ISA 10Mb NIC, pop it in, load the module for it, assign it a different IP, and plug that into my hub along with the other systems. My hub is 10/100. Can I give the new NIC a separate name in the DNS table, and treat it as if it were just another machine on the network (even though it is the same one)? For example, my "oops"'ing NIC is attached to the server, hostname "fiona" (172.16.12.1). If I pop in the ISA NIC, give it some arbitrary, unused IP of 172.16.12.20, can I simply give another (different) DNS name to the .20 IP, like "fiona2"? Also, from a workstation, can I "ftp fiona2" and still write files to the same server? Or at least "ftp 172.16.12.20")? (ack! I think I'm confusing myself here...) _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list linux-user@egr.msu.edu http://www.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user ------_=_NextPart_001_01BFEDA3.CB58EF9E Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">RE: Prolly a silly question, but... Yes.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Garrison [mailto:aeg@lbwl.com]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 10:59 AM
To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
Subject: Prolly a silly question, but...
With the NIC problem I've been having, I was trying = to
come up with an alternate solution (short of = replacing
the $25 Tulip-based card with a $75 3com). I = assume
I can do the following: Get an older ISA 10Mb = NIC,
pop it in, load the module for it, assign it a = different
IP, and plug that into my hub along with the other =
systems. My hub is 10/100.Can I give the new NIC a separate name in the DNS = table,
and treat it as if it were just another machine on = the
network (even though it is the same one)? For = example,
my "oops"'ing NIC is attached to the = server, hostname "fiona"
(172.16.12.1). If I pop in the ISA NIC, give = it some
arbitrary, unused IP of 172.16.12.20, can I simply = give
another (different) DNS name to the .20 IP, like = "fiona2"?
Also, from a workstation, can I "ftp = fiona2" and still
write files to the same server? Or at least =
"ftp 172.16.12.20")?(ack! I think I'm confusing myself = here...)
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