Subject: Re: multiple network interfaces
To: Douglas Egan <degan@calcon.net>
From: Mipam <mipam@ibb.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/22/2001 14:19:00
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 11:47:49AM -0600, Douglas Egan wrote:
> Sorry for my late reply, I appreciate your quick answer.
> 
> I needed to get something running quickly so I dropped back to one card, and
> haven't tried this again.  Next week I will have some more time to troubleshoot
> this again.
> 
> I would agree that it should be a no-brainer, and I was expecting just what
> you described, that I should be able to ping each interface from its own subnet.
> 
> 
> With PNP ISA cards, (which I am using for one interface 3c509) I booted DOS
> and configured the card for PNP.  I was going to try to hardcode the address
> and irq in the kernel conf file to see if that makes any difference.

I have the same card in a 1.4.3 x86 machine.
With the 3c5cfg or some program like that i settled the card
on 9/300 and removed the pnp activities so that it behaves
like a normal isa card. Worked fine and still does :)
That machine even has two additional network cards in it.
Bye,

Mipam.