---------- quoting Joshua Banks ----------
> 1) Can I just follow the same instructions within the Intial Gentoo
> Install guide to get this Second card to work and,
yep, should be pretty straight forward. shutdown, insert NIC, boot, compile
NIC drivers (say: kernel modules, make modules modules_install), modprobe
<driver> and "ifconfig ... up" to test it.
Then you can just modify values in /etc/conf.d/net for your 2nd NIC and
after a reboot you should be fine.
> 2) Is there any recommendations (do's/don'ts) as to mixing or matching
> when using multiple network cards? I'm assuming Linux will take
> anything that you can plug into it just about.. :P
that's sort of a standard scenario, so you don't have to be afraid :)
> 3) The network card connecting to the cable modem will negotiating at
> 10baseT-HD or 10Mb half-duplex. The other nic on the internal lan will
> be running at 100baseTX-HD. Are there any any foreseen horrors with
> this type of setup (specifically downloading and file transfers going
> from a 10Mb to 100Mb and vicea-versa) or is this a pretty common
> scenario?
I wouldn't bet my house on that, but I am quite sure that this isn't a
proiblem. Linux (Kernel) will handle this...
HTH! Greetings, Matthias
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