Hi Tracy,

I did this a couple years ago on a 997. IIRC, you have to configure the
100Mbit card *after* it's physically installed or the system won't validate
your configuration in NMMGR. At least I had to under 5.5 PP4, which is where
we were at the time. :-)

We kept the 10Mbit card and, on the advice of HP, renamed it in NMMGR from
SYSLINK to DTSLINK, since we were still running DTC's over it; then
configured the 100Mbit card as SYSLINK. The theory was that this would make
it easy to keep our IP stuff and LAN1 on SYSLINK. What actually happened,
though, was that NMMGR was smart enough to know when you rename a network
interface link, so all its associated dependents got updated to say, "Okay,
now we're using DTSLINK." So after configuring the 100Mbit card, I had to go
in and manually change all the NI links under NS from DTSLINK back to
SYSLINK. What a pain! However, if everything still works the same way, this
may actually be what you want to do. Better double-check with HP, though,
since as I said this was a couple of years ago under an older OS release.
YMMV

Good luck!
Patrick
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Patrick Santucci
HP e3000 Systems Administrator
Cornerstone Consolidated Services Group, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnson, Tracy [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 11:55 am
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [HP3000-L] Dual Network Cards on a System
>
> We're looking at getting the 100MBit card for our system.
>
> 1) Yes we know we need the extra software from HP.
>
> 2) We intend to use the new card for a new private set of IP addresses.
>
> 3) We intend to keep the old card on the existing set of public IP
> addresses.
>
> Is this o.k?  Are there other issues that would conflict?
>
> Tracy Johnson
> MSI Schaevitz Sensors