Shoel Perelman <sdp4198 @
is2 .
nyu .
edu> said:
> I have found that you CANNOT use a 3COM card in conjuction with another =
> NIC! I struggled with two 3COM 509 cards for an hour or so until I read =
> the Multiple-Ethrnet MINI-HOWTO that specifically states "You cannot use =
> 2 3Coms because they disable the probe after one card is found". So =
> stay away from 3COMs. Now I'm using 2 NE2000 clones and they're working =
> fine. =20
Well, that's not quite true-- our firewall is a Linux machine with two
3C509's, so it is definitely possible to get that configuration to work.
The HOWTO may state that the probe is disabled after one card is found,
but that shouldn't stop you from configuring the other interface by hand.
That's what we did-- one card was auto-detected, and I put an entry in the
lilo.conf file to manually configure the second card. It works well!
(Otherwise this message wouldn't be reaching the list... :-) )
---Mark
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