[plug] PPC firewall question

[Quintin Lette]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:55 am, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <1063067784.1031.203.camel at latte.internal.itmaze.com.au>
>
> on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:36:24AM +0800, Onno Benschop wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 08:07, Quintin Lette wrote:
> > > By the way does anyone know how to use the aaui port on a powermac
> > > under linux, that would make life so easy... 2 onboard nics (10mb RJ45
> > > + 10mb AAUI) and 3 pci slots on the 7200/x series Powermacs :-)
> >
> > While I may be corrected by others, from memory you can use one or the
> > other, not both. (Unless of course the Linux drivers do something waaay
> > more funky than the original Apple drivers.)
>
> Just talking generically, here...I would doubt (in my naivete) that
> there is any electrical reason why you couldn't use both ports at once.
> It is simply that the base Mac OS or appliance installations from Apple
> used only a single network identity and thus it didn't make sense to try
> to be using that single identity on two different Ethernet interfaces
> simultaneously (e.g. no innate use for bridging across two Ethernet
> interfaces). The limitation for Linux might be a lack of documentation
> or reverse engineering for the AAUI port, though I don't think this is
> the case given that NetBSD has AAUI support. Perhaps you just need to
> install or port something <shrug>

a porting we will go... a porting we will go... ;-) hmmm... sounds like fun.. 
just after programming 101 ;-)