What kind of cards are they? I've never heard of a P166 handling one PCI NIC let alone 3 !! If these cards are in fact ISA, then it should support 1 or 2 but even so, I can't see it handling 3. Linux may detect them, but I'd be impressed if it could actually run that many at all.
Lanman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Single Network Firewall > On Sunday 24 February 2002 04:47 am, Robin wrote: > > Quoting myself from 2 or 3 days ago. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > I happened to be just playing with one of my box hoping to make it into > > a firewall box in the last few days. It's a 133 with 96MB of RAM. I > > tried both Mandrake SNF and Smoothwall on it. I haven't played with it > > long enough to be an expert, thus what I know may not be all correct. > > With 3 NIC installed, you can setup Smoothwall with a dedicated DMZ. > > Both firewall can be managed with web interface, however, with this old > > machine I got, Smoothwall seems to generate the pages a bit faster than > > SNF. > > > > One of the problem I had with Smoothwall was with picking the LAN NIC. > > About 5 min into installation, a NIC for internal LAN (the green > > interface) has to be picked and it cannot be changed without reinstall > > (at least I haven't figured out how). If the card you want is not auto > > detected, you will have to pick from a list, not a problem if you have 3 > > identical NIC. I had 2 different kind of NIC and it kept picking the one > > I didn't want. Also, I don't know if this is the NIC module problem or > > something else, when I put 2 3Com 509b in the machine, I can only get > > one to work with both firewall. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > If you have two or more network cards in your computer, you may need to add > an append statement to your /etc/lilo.conf file to describe the IRQ and > address of both cards. My lilo append statement looks like this: > append="ether=12,0x300,eth0 ether=15,0x340,eth1" > > 12 and 15 being the irq and 300 and 340 the base IO address > You may need to add the third cad something like > append="ether=12,0x300,eth0 ether=15,0x340,eth1 ether=irq,base_io,eth2" > > Earlier in one of my systems I had to recompile the kernel to recognize > multiple NICs > -- > Gerald Waugh > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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