Re: Changing NIC

[Ryan Walker <walkerr@ssimicro.com>]

Unless I am missing something really obvious this should be fairly
trivial.  

Shut the system down.
Pop out the old card.
Pop in the new card.
Fire up the machine.

Run 'dmesg | more' to find out the device name assigned to the new
network card. Likely this will be de0 or something similar.

Copy your existing hostname.xl0 or whatever over to a file that reflects
the new device name, likely hostname.de0.  Change any commands or
switches in that file as required.

If you are doing IP forwarding or NAT you'll likely have to change the
related files to reflect the new interface name.  Anything that
references the device name will have to be changed.

Reboot and verify that everything comes up OK.

Take care.
Ryan

PS I am far from a guru but I do not think this is going to be a
difficult thing to do.  And if I have given bad advice apologies in
advance.


Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> 
> This operation may seem laughably simple to some people…
> 
> How can I change the NIC with as little pain as possible ?
> 
> I have a box with a 3COM509 ISA NIC which was recognised/configured during the OS
> installation.
> 
> I would like to remove this NIC and replace with a D-Link DFE-530TX… (chipset =
> RTL8139) hardly the best NIC on the planet, but an improvement.
> 
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