Changing out network card

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Sun Aug 3 12:37:24 PDT 2003


Nick wrote:
> I have a server running DHCPD, FTP, DNS (namedb), and OpenSSH.  My current
> network card is a 3Com 10mbit.  I want to change it out for another network
> card, but make it a 3com 100mbit.  Am I going to have to reconfigure my
> DHCP, DNS and OpenSSH to use this new interface, or is there another way of
> getting around all of that?

Services usually care about IP addresses, not interface names.  You will need to 
change the interface name in /etc/rc.conf, but that should be it.

-- 
-Chuck




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