Ramon Gandia writes:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Pat Mc wrote:
> > Having some trouble setting up multiple nics on my 486. I'm using ne
> > clones with Mandrake 5.3 kernel 2.0.36. The cards work fine
> > individually, but with both configured I can only get one to work at a
> > time. I have tried netconf but that is not doing the trick.
> >
> > At this point I have done the configuration by hand. Both cards are
> > recognized at boot and ifconfig shows both up and running. But only one
> > works..ie ping etc....
>
> You probably do not have routing set up for any cards but
> the first. No route, no pings. With one card, it will
> assume the proper routes. With two cards, only one will
> route unless you set it up specifically.
This is correct. The routing has to be set up in a special way.
> I do not know about the new Kernels, but in the 2.0.36
> and prior kernels, if you had more than one NIC of the
> same type, you could not use modules. Modules would work
> if they needed different drivers. Otherwise, with
> identical cards you needed to compile the driver directly
> into the kernel. I have no idea about the 2.2.x kernels,
> but you should check this out.
Don't know about this one. I have used two network cards for a long
time, both with 2.0.36 and 2.2.13, but they are different cards.
If you tell me which networks or hosts you want to associate with
which cards, I can try to help you out.
-sen
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