From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 03:47:17 -0800 Message-ID: From: Michael Hansen To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: [9fans] Changing the active NIC on 9front Topicbox-Message-UUID: baf9480e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello, I picked-up an old Thinkpad T23 and a Lucent Wavelan PC24E-H-FC, hoping to use it when I'm out of the house. My Wavelan card seems to connect to the WAP fine, after I configured it based on the plan9.ini man page. However, I haven't figured-out which documentation to consult regarding how to point the IP stack at the Wavelan card instead of the Thinkpad's integrated wired nic. I've read some archived posts on this list regarding alternate namespaces for two interfaces, but that doesn't seem to be quite the same problem. I don't intend to make any use of the integrated nic, but the MAC address for that nic is the one which appears in /lib/ndb/local. Swapping that MAC address with the Wavelan's seems to simply cause the machine's $sysname to revert to Cirno. (Not that there's anything wrong with Cirno, but that change doesn't seem to have brought me any closer to a solution.) I'd try the dual nic, dual namespace option, but I don't think I understand how namespaces work well enough to pull it off, yet. If it matters, this machine isn't meant to depend on my cpu/auth server, and the caching DNS servers I plan to use seem to be accessible from all the networks to which I intend to connect it. I'd really appreciate help understanding what I need to change, or links to what I need to read.