On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 11:07:33AM +0200, HERREMAN Cedric wrote:
> I have a board with 2 realtek 8139 ethernet ports. I would like to use
> one for real time communication (rtnet), the other one would just
> participate in a classical LAN network. Can I do this ? In that case
> both 8139too drivers need to be loaded in the kernel (standard and
> real time version). Or can I use the real time driver for both ?

It works, although the rtl8139 relatime driver can only be configured to
use the first N ports for realtime, which might lead to using the wrong
port (in case you need a special one of your ports for realtime). Look
at the module parameters in the driver code to see how it works. 

Robert
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