From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from eris.host4u.net([216.71.64.44]) (2200 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 13:36:11 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from mikey ([216.242.217.130]) by eris.host4u.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA32499 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 12:34:51 -0500 Message-ID: <029901c0da3f$554d54a0$82d9f2d8@mikey> From: "Mike Calvo" To: References: Subject: Re: Multiple Network Cards Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 13:25:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 List-Id: I am using the same configuration but for something different and it works fine. Redhat figures out all that stuff if it is a card. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" To: "speakup e-mail list" Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 1:13 PM Subject: Multiple Network Cards > I know, this is more generic than speakup, but I'm wanting to hook up two > network cards to one of my linux boxes. Using one to connect to a > broadband modem and the other for my inside local area network. > > I don't invision real problems configuring the two separate interfaces > (eth0 and eth1) but do wonder about putting two similar network cards on > the same bus. I'm thinking about IRQ conflicts, I/O base addresses and > all that good stuff. This is not a plug and pray setup, but the cards are > "jumperless" where I would configure them from a provided DOS utility. > > Have any of you brains out there done this? how did it go for you? Will > there really be any problems configuring separate cards in the same > machine like this? I would think this would be a trivial matter for any > machine that works as a gateway or router. > > Thanks for any help. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup