On Wed, 12 Apr 2000,  David Hearne wrote about,  this bothers me:
> Hi all,
> 
>     I have just finished setting up my RH 6 machine for IP Masqing and
> firewalling.  So, I have two NIC's in the machine.  Everything works
> properly, but when I look at /proc/interrupts is shows me that BOTH NIC's as
> well as my SCSI CD-ROM are all using the same IRQ (it's 5...if that
> matters).
>     My question is this :  Is this a problem waiting to happen, or should I
> just ignore it and let the cards fight for processor attention?  Also, one
> of the cards is bus-mastering...again...if that makes any difference.

I see the ame sort of thing on my machine here at home, its full of PCI
cards + all other slots are full as well. My BTTV card shares an interrupt
with my SCSI controller but i have never seen ot miss a beat yet.

> Thanks!
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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