Yeah, me too. I always seem to have some 3c509's around so I use those for the public interface and DMZ interface and new cards for the internal interface. Always worked for me and I don't waste a new card on a slow connection. (This obviously isn't for critical use.)
At 03:57 PM 3/5/2003 -0600, you wrote: >will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I'm still trying to figure out why it's such a big deal. The truth >is, I have 3 disparate network cards. One is wireless. There's tons >of documentation on pf for BSD's where folks reference their external >interface as one hw type (say xl0) and their internal card is another >(ne0). If I have a stable environment, why would I start swapping out >hardware?(1) I suppose there are some instances of two different network >cards interacting poorly but I'd say in my eperience this is not a >frequent case. I'm curious now as to why you perceive this to be >"special". > >I don't know if the original poster's issue was fixed, I just assume it was > > > > I didn't write that. Mixing network cards is perverse, though I've > > done it once or twice. Then again, I'm still using my 3com509bs. > > Using the same two dissimilar cards again and a again for years, > > that's special. Two extra solder spikes for you until you buy a new > > network card. > > > > I'm glad the problem was fixed. > >(1) Other than the wireless card, everything in my gateway OpenBSD box >was surplus, ie. free. > >For your amusement: >$ ifconfig -a >wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > address: 00:04:e2:29:53:f5 > nwid <snip> > nwkey <not displayed> > powersave off > media: IEEE802.11 autoselect hostap > status: active > inet 192.168.3.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255 > inet6 fe80::204:e2ff:fe29:53f5%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 >xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > address: 00:01:02:64:17:ba > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) > status: active > inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fe64:17ba%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255 >ne0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > address: 00:c0:df:ab:20:b1 > media: Ethernet 10baseT > inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 > inet6 fe80::2c0:dfff:feab:20b1%ne0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 >(snipped) > >-- >Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >"...and one script to rule them all." > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
