I know 3c905bs work fine under debian {potato|woody|sid}, because I've had
one in my debian box since we built it. The trouble started when I added
another one.
I live in a dorm room at Cal Poly now, and they only allow each student
one IP, and they actually enforce their policy, making you enter your
@calpoly.edu email each time your IP changes.
I have two computers, one debian and one win2k, so the logical thing to do
seemed to be to put another NIC in te debian box and run NAT or
ipmasquerading or whatever you like to call it. I have 4 NICs to move
around--2 3c905bs, 1 3c905c and one 1 3c905.
Currently both NICs in the debian box are 3c905b, but they'll all work
under the 3c59x module anyway. After installing the module I can ifconfig
both NICs (and I've checked the hardware addresses onthe cards to make
sure I have the patch cable from the wall going into the one i'm running
pump on) but pump fails. I know the addresses are assigned as per normal
DHCP, because when I ipconfig on my windows box before I authenticate I
have an IP. Before I put the second NIC in the DHCP/web authentication
process worked perfectly on both boxen.
I have no idea where I went wrong here. Both 3c905b cards work fine in my
win2k box, so the hardware ain't at fault here. Is pump -i ethN not the
syntax I want? Perhaps also worth adding--taking the second NIC out
doesn't rectify the problem, and this is a clean install of debian potato.
Julia Coolman
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"When the revolution comes, we'll need a very big wall."
