Having 2 NIC Cards

I have installed a second network card in my power G4 and I need to configure this card with a static IP; however, there is no where to do this (or at least I can not find it). I have the on board network card configured and working. Any suggestions?
I know if I was running os 10 then I could use UNIX commands to do this however I can not afford to do this at the present time.
Thanks
Power g4 Mac OS 9.2.x

Hi Manikandan,
You can use two network cards but if you installed B1 when this two network cards has been configured to enable, the B1 application run will have slow performance. So, you must disable one of network cards, restart the B1 server and run the B1 again.
If you need the NIC card that is already disable, you can enable again. It won't give slow performance.
my answer is quoted from SAP note 1135705:
SAP Business One takes too long to log on users
Symptom
SAP Business One client (not installed on the same machine as the
license service) might take several minutes to log you on successfully due to a delay in establishing a connection with the license server.
After logon, SAP Business One functions as expected.
This is due to the fact that the server or PC on which the license server is installed has more than one network card, or there is a dial-up & VPN interface-configured server.
Note: This can happen when you install the license service on a machine with more than one network card ALREADY installed.
Installing additional network cards on a single network card machine with a license service already installed might not produce this issue.
Other terms
SAP Business One, slow, login, log-in, delay, license, server, NIC, VPN, connection.
Reason and Prerequisites
Application error.
Solution
This issue is a candidate to be resolved in a future release.
Until then, you can use one of the following workarounds:
Disable additional network cards in the Network Connections. Also make sure there is no dialup interface or VPN interface set up, and restart the server. Note that you can re-enable the additional network card after the restart. This will resolve the issue until the next restart.
Install the license server on a machine with a single network card.
Disable all network cards, restart the license server and then enable the network cards again.
JimM

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