Subject: Re: can I put two of the same ethernet boards in my x86?
To: Mike Begley <spam@hell.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/06/1998 10:45:56
	Providing you use different IRQ, port, and mem values (as
	appropriate) they should work fine. I had a host with two
	SMC 16bit boards in a while back :)

		David/absolute

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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Mike Begley wrote:

> OK, dumb question here.  I have an x86 with two ethernet boards, one more
> feeble than the other.  Last night, the feeble board was having major
> amounts of ring buffer overflows while handling NFS traffic, and the
> computer began behaving very badly.
> 
> I have a second of the non-feeble ethernet boards (an SMC ultra 16 bit
> board).  Can I put two of the same boards in my x86 and have NetBSD
> recognize it?  Or are they going to conflict?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> -mike
> 
>