What happens when you try - can the machine still see hosts on
	attached networks? Does the problem happen without the 3c905 if
	you try to make ne1 the primary interface?
	

		David/absolute

  -=-  "Old Red he died, and every single landlord in the district cried"  -=-

On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Ron Roskens wrote:

> The problem from what I can tell has more to do with netbsd wanting the first 
> interface found to be the primary interface. As of yet, I have not found any 
> way to manually configure the choice of the primary interface.
> 
> As for the 3c905, I think it has more to do with that when the its config'd 
> into the kernel, it becomes the first interface.
> 
> The current list is this:
> $ ifconfig -l
> ep0 ne0 ne1 lo0
> 
> Ron
> 
> On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 13:21:00 -0700 (PDT) David Brownlee 
> <abs@anim.dreamworks.com> wrote:
> 
> > 	Just to clarify - if you have one of the ne cards as the primary
> > 	interface the machine will not route between it and the other ne
> > 	card?
> > 
> > 	Does this happen with the 3c905 in but not configured, or in and
> > 	configured to some unrelated network?
> > 
> > 		David/absolute
> > 
> >                  -=-  "You can't help my absence of faith"  -=-
> > 
> > On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Ron Roskens wrote:
> > 
> > > I've got my home machine currently configured with 2 ne NICs, with the machine 
> > > running as a gateway for other machines at home. I want to add a 3c905 card to 
> > > the box and run a fast ethernet network at home also, but when the 3c905 card 
> > > is in, its always configured as the first NIC. If this card is not configured 
> > > as the main IP, the box will not function as a gateway.
> > > 
> > > The machine is running 1.3.2.
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions on what I could do here?
> > > 
> > > Ron
> > > ----------------------
> > > Ron Roskens
> > > roskens@cs.umn.edu
> > > 
> > 
> 
>