Regarding your dual network card problem, it is a well known issue for many
people (like me) who use Linux as a router. I assume your 2nd NIC has PnP
built in. What you can do is run this program called isapnp (from somewhere
in your harddisk, or look it up on the Internet if there isn't. It is a
common app) and it will tell you the ios and irqs of the cards you have.
>From there I think you can manage it on your own.
regards,
Foo Ji-Haw ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berkom
raum 6067
extension 3166
----- Original Message -----
From: alann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 12:01 PM
Subject: [expert] Work Project
> I have been challenged with a task at work and we hope to use Linux for
> this.
> This will be the first Linux machine in the building. Let me try to
> describe what I want
> to do and what I have done allready.
>
> I am a TV engineer. Our TV station's weather department has 3 SGI
> machines and a Solaris machine.
> 2 of the SGI's and the Solaris are on a network together. Right now,
> they save wx maps to floppies and
> ftp them to our internet site. This is very tedious and repetitive.
> Here's where Linux comes into play.
> First our IT knows nothing about Linux ( or Unix ) for that matter, so
> hence the reason I got the job.
>
> What I want to do is have the Linux box ( now refered to as Beavis )
> reside on the SGI network and get
> these files ( not actually GET - more later ) and FTP them to the web
> server using cron.hourly.
>
> Beavis is a AMD K-6/II with 64 megs of ram and a 4 gig HD running
> Mandrake 6.0 with a NIC installed
> ( Intel Ethernet Express ) working and surfing thru the MS proxy
> server. It resides at an address
> of 192.x.x.x. All is well. The SGI stuff resides with an adress of
> 147.x.x.x.
>
> I need to add a SECOND IDENTICAL NIC ( Same Intel Ethernet Express ) to
> this and make it another
> 147.x.x.x address. This is where I'm running into problems. I cannot
> seem to find a HOWTO about
> 2 network cards residing in a machine. These are ISA cards BTW, so I
> cannot set IRQ like PCI's.
> AND these cards have NO physical jumpers to set anything, the only
> difference is they seem to have a
> PAL chip on each programmed for a different address.
>
> The SGI machines have a place to set a mount point on any drive on the
> network. The wx people will simply
> save thier maps they want to uload to /home/beavis/maps or something
> along that line.
> Then using SOME FTP program, do this hourly, automatically.
>
> I think I can handle most of this but the 2 NIC's is the HURDLE..
>
> Also whats the BEST FTP to use in a situation like this.
> What I want to do is
> ftp a whole directory ( about 15 maps )
> delete it.
>
> The updated maps from the SGI have the SAME filenames over and over so
> once they are FTP'ed they
> need to be deleted from Beavis.
>
> I hope some of you have some insight on this, cause the boss ( who wants
> to try Linux ) has
> been yakking this up.. I think it would be awsome to do this and go back
> and say,
> Beavis has been running for 250 days, 13 hours, 26 minutes etc. without
> a reboot.
>
> Might change some attitudes around there..
>
> Alan
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