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)
>
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