According to Ray Olszewski: While burning my CPU.
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> At 11:21 PM 1/10/99 +0100, Jeroen wrote:
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> >I got hold of a CD-Rom drive and a HDD both SCSI, now I don't know
> >annything about SCSI so my first question is, what brand/type of SCSI
> >cards/adapters (don't know how to call it) is best supported in Linux?
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> The Hardware Compatibility HowTo lists the SCSI cards supported by Linux.
> The latest version (July 1996) is available at URL
> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-8.html .
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> >Now this could be a stupid question but here goes, say I got three pc's
> >and four ethernet cards but no hub, is there a way I can use one pc as a
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> >hub to connect all three of them without an actual hub?
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> A hub needs multiple Ethernet connections. I've seen Ethernet cards (NICs)
> for PCs that have 4 ports, not the usual one, but I haven't seen one for
> years. Using 2 Ethernet cards in one PC is possible, but it is definitely
> doing it the hard way, considering how cheap real hubs are (4-port hubs cost
> about $25 around here).
Normaly all ethernet cards have a BNC coax cable connector, using that
connector you can link any computer to another without needing anything
else. Cards like 3comm wd8003 smc_ultra NE2000, they all have a BNC
connector, so no need for a so called HUB.
You can also have more than 2 ethernet cards in one computer.
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> If you do put 2 NICs in one PC, you'll need to configure 2 interfaces (eth0
> and eth1), use "cross-connect" cables to connect to the other 2 PCs (think
> of these as the Ethernet equivalent of modem eliminator cables on serial
> ports), and set up the Linux box to do IP forwarding so the other two PCs
> can comminucate with each other (this probably means compiling a custom kernel).
The only need to recompile a kernel is IF the card is not supported by the
users kernel, or there is no module installed, normaly speaking a standard
distribution kernel (one from the distribtion cd's) has all drivers included
as modules. Its more a question of try it all first before we go compiling a
new kernel.
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> Hope this helps. Good luck.
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