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Replacing Nic "on the fly"

My external Nic just stopped working and I'm in the beginning phases of trouble-shooting. I verified my setting in Astaro....and being that everything was working for the past 60plus days, I'm assuming that the problem is in the NIC. My question is.....Can I change the NIC without reinstalling Astaro? I thinking that if I remove the External Interface from the software settings and shutdown the firewall, phyiscally change the NIC and reboot, the software might pick up the new MAC addy and I can then re-assign the IPs accordingly. RIGHT?????

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0 Andy_01 over 23 years ago

no, not right. you change the NIC and then (in case it's a different NIC) you modify /etc/modules.conf to load the right driver. You can look this up at http://ftp.tlk-l.net/pub/redhat/redhat/current/doc/RH-DOCS/rhl-rg-en-7.3/s1-modules-ethernet.html
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0 DerChris over 23 years ago in reply to Andy_01

Hmmm ...
I had the same problem. I took out the old NIC and put the new one in the same PCI slot.
While bootinf astaro recognized the the change of hardware and loaded the correct module.
Even the IP & alias assigned to the old NIC were taken over.
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0 oliver.desch over 23 years ago in reply to DerChris

f3@Rl3SS,

there is no plug and play capability after the installation!
Seems that you used thesame NIC type as Andy mentioned
or something very magic happened on your ASL

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o|iver
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0 SirRah over 23 years ago in reply to oliver.desch

Thanks everyone....I'll try the "magic" first and then if it fails try the edit.

Thanks
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0 DerChris over 23 years ago in reply to SirRah

@Oliver:
*lol*
So it seems, that really something magicaly happend.
I had an old 10MBit SMC NIC with a digital chipset in first and replaced it with a 100MBit NIC from Intel.
I don't think the Intel NIC uses the tulip driver also.

Greetings
Chris
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0 DerChris over 23 years ago in reply to SirRah

@Oliver:
*lol*
So it seems, that really something magicaly happend.
I had an old 10MBit SMC NIC with a digital chipset in first and replaced it with a 100MBit NIC from Intel.
I don't think the Intel NIC uses the tulip driver also.

Greetings
Chris
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0 oliver.desch over 23 years ago in reply to DerChris

@f3@Rl3SS [;)]

had a quick look in tulip_core.c and found

code:

 /* I21145 */
  { "Intel DS21145 Tulip", 128, 0x0801fbff,
        HAS_MII | HAS_MEDIA_TABLE | ALWAYS_CHECK_MII | HAS_ACPI
        | HAS_NWAY | HAS_PCI_MWI, t21142_timer },

Seems that tulip cares about Intel as well! [:O]

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