My apologies for the rather long reply inline...
On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 21:42:51 PDT David Smead wrote: > I have 5 of the 3C509B NICs. I have 6 3c509b cards in two of my firewalls. One is Dachstein and the other is Bering. I can testify that all 12 work fine when properly configured with 3c5x9cfg.exe. More on that below. > I downloaded the 3Com PNP tools which are a > self expanding .exe. That didn't do me any good, because it expects to > have a hard drive in the system for the expansion. I really don't want to > install M$ on a hard drive!! All you really need is the 226k 3c5x9cfg.exe. Someone has a copy posted at http://www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/Netzdienste/nm/misc/3comnic/ I ran a comparison of the md5 checksum with a known good copy from 3com and they match. [brad@brad-nb tmp]$ wget \ http://www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/Netzdienste/nm/misc/3comnic/3c5x9cfg.exe \ 2> /dev/null [brad@brad-nb tmp]$ md5sum /tmp/3c5x9cfg.exe acd53047824a7438c097e7d58be5bdcd 3c5x9cfg.exe [brad@brad-nb tmp]$ md5sum /mnt/disk/3c5x9cfg.exe acd53047824a7438c097e7d58be5bdcd /mnt/disk/3c5x9cfg.exe IIRC, you only need MS DOS to extract the 3c509x1.exe disk image...still it's a shame it's not a plain self-extracting zip file. > But I discovered the isapnp site, ock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/ and from > there found a dos version that lets me boot dos, then swap disks and run a > couple of tools to configure the cards. The tools say they configure with > the io and irqs that I set. >From your description, I can't tell if you found 3c5x9cfg.exe at the url above or some other tool. Either way, you definitely want to make sure you disable PnP on the cards and, as other list members have said, give each separate IO and IRQ addresses. Here's the setup from one of my firewalls. # cat /proc/ioports [..] 0300-030f : 3c509 0310-031f : 3c509 0320-032f : 3c509 0330-033f : 3c509 0340-034f : 3c509 0350-035f : 3c509 [..] # cat /proc/interrupts [..] 5: 14051544 XT-PIC eth0 7: 3714433 XT-PIC eth1 8: 47 XT-PIC rtc 9: 61372 XT-PIC eth2 10: 0 XT-PIC eth3 11: 0 XT-PIC eth4 12: 0 XT-PIC eth5 [..] (I don't use the parallel port or any sound cards on this machine.) You should probably check that all NICs are using the same transceiver types and duplex values from 3c5x9cfg.exe too. <aside> If you jot down the MAC addresses from 3c5x9cfg.exe and physically arrange the cards in order ascending or descending MAC address it makes it much easier to keep track of which NIC maps to which ethN interface. </aside> > However, that doesn't work with Bering. I still get just two interfaces > instead of four. I've tried linking to 3c509.o to make it look like I > have another driver, and I've copied 3c509.o to another filename and > listed that in /etc/modules and I still get operation not supported by > device. Sure sounds like you still have an IO port or IRQ conflict. If you configure the cards properly with 3c5x9cfg.exe, you will only need a single 3c509 line in /etc/modules and the driver will autmagically recognize all your 3c509b NICs. That's the setup in my 6 3c509b Bering box, and they all work fine. > I have a couple of other old NICs that aren't PNP, but without enough > information to know what driver they take. > > I don't want to waste a good machine for a firewall, but it's looking more > like that will have to be done. How is everyone else handling more than > two interfaces? In my opinion the 3c509b NICs are great cards. I bought a lot of 25 for about $2 a piece on eBay and whenever I can, I use them exclusively in the firewalls I build. Before I use one, I configure it with the copy of 3c5x9cfg.exe on a dos bootable floppy. Here's the uptime info from one of those firewalls right before I unplugged it to hook it up to a UPS: [brad@brad-nb brad]$ cat systen_router_uptime systenrouter: -root- # uptime 16:18:16 up 218 Days (5254h), load average: 0.00 0.00 0.00 I had *zero* problems with the NICs during that period and the same is true for the 3c509b NICs in my other firewalls. Hope that helps, Dave. Let me know if you need further details from any of my config files. --Brad > -- > Sincerely, > > David Smead > http://www.amplepower.com. _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
