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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.mindlink.net!vanbc.wimsey.com!fonorola!milkyway.com!not-for-mail From: mcr@metis.milkyway.com (Michael Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Using more than one ethernet card in BSD/OS (2.0) Date: 20 Jul 1995 23:08:13 -0400 Organization: Milkyway Networks Corporation, Ottawa, ON Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3un5mt$k39@metis.milkyway.com> References: <3tjlnb$is5@maceo.emedia.net> <3tr886$o54@catalyst.mmt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: metis.milkyway.com In article <3tr886$o54@catalyst.mmt.com>, Michael Ferioli <ferioli@disaster.com> wrote: >You have to reconfigure the kernel to look for the card(s) at the specific >address. Out of the box, it looks for the 3Com's at 0x250... so it is No, that is not true. 3c509's get completely configured by the kernel. You should soft configure them to different addresses beforehand anyway. What you need to do is define an ef1 as well as an ef0. >As for telling you the wrong IRQ, this seems to be a bug. I had the same Nope, the kernel decides. If there are conflicts with other devices that the kernel does not know about then: >you), you can hardcode the IRQ in the kernel config file as well as the >base address. Do not ask me how you can tell which card is which after they have been configured, or if they are configured in the same order each time. This last bit is why we recommend SMC8216s for our firewalls :-) -- :!mcr!: | <A HREF="http://www.milkyway.com/">Milkyway Networks Corporation</A> Michael Richardson | Makers of the Black Hole firewall NCF: aa714 || xx714 | +1 613 566-4574 ... mcr@milkyway.com Home: <A HREF="http://www.sandelman.ocunix.on.ca/People/Michael_Richardson/Bio.html">mcr@sandelman.ocunix.on.ca</A>. PGP key available.