On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Shoel Perelman wrote:
> 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.
This is not true at all.
We have standardized on using two 3com Etherlink III (3c509) NIC's in
our Linux based dual-homed firewalls.
This works very well and we get a good throughput using only 486's.
Never had any problems using the cards.
You have to set the eth0 and eth1 manually using the
append="ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=5,0x320,eth1"
command in /etc/lilo.conf
(The values can differ in your setup.) Also remember to turn off the Plug
and Play option on the NIC and also set them up one at a time.
Regards
Thomas Lundquist.
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