[plug] 2 network cards

Richard Sharpe sharpe at ns.aus.com
Sun Jul 16 22:23:46 WST 2000


At 07:56 PM 7/16/00 +0800, you wrote:
>If you have 2 network cards using the same module driver (ne.o in this
>case), what's the syntax in /etc/conf.modules to set up the 2 cards?  Or
>could someone say where the HOWTO/MINI/Multiple-Ethernet document is?

alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x300,0x340

The second alias is not really needed. Why?

>The problem is (using this excerpt from the Bridging mini-HOWTO) that the
>alias specifies the module by name, but you need two "options" to specify
>the addresses of the cards (io=0x300 & io=0x320 for these cards).
>
>alias eth0 3c509
>alias eth1 de620
>options 3c509 irq=5 io=0x210
>options de620 irq=7 bnc=1
>
>A reference to the appropriate manual will do . .
>
>Thanks
>
>K.
>
>
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
 





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