On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, David Hearne wrote:
> 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.
If they are PCI cards, there should be no problem. PCI is designed to
allow shared interrupts.
Frank
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>
>
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