Can anyone tell me how my tru 64 system picks what the device name of my
nic cards are going to be? And then, how to change them? I have some
666 MHz dual processor 264DP's. On Saturday I had an 18gb Seagate hard
drive crash. Of course this drive had the os on it. I had a spare data
disk that I wiped out and installed the os (version 5.0) onto. After the
installation, I was configuring the nic cards with the gui wizard, and I
noticed that my nic cards had the device names tu1 and tu2. The nic
cards are de500 10/100 ethernet rj45's. They were configured as 100mb
full duplex. I have two net cards on each machine. The first is used
for normal networking by multiple users. The second card is reserved
for performing large scale distributed memory/distributed data parallel
calculations. The second card of each machine is connected to a switch
that no one else is connected to.
With the original hard drive, I am 99.99% sure the cards had previously
been tu0 and tu1. The reason I need to reconfigure and get back to tu0
is that a commercial application I use assumes your nic card is tu0 in
order to confirm that you have a valid software license. When I run a
script (provided with the software) to get the nic card id, the script
says it cannot find my ethernet card. I know the card works as I can
ftp/rlogin back and forth between machines. As the tu0 card cannot be
found, I cannot run my commercial application.
My other alphas all have their nic cards configured as tu0 and tu1. The
machines are all nominally the same - some have more disk space than
others, some have more ram than the others. One has 5.0a operating
system.
Thanks for your help.
Andrew
ahamer_at_csefire.com
Received on Mon Mar 05 2001 - 00:33:30 NZDT