two ethernet cards in a linux box

[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

I do Unix drivers for a living (among other things).  I've had my "faint of 
heart" genes surgically removed.  I read the howto.  I tried entering 
several different commands lines.  I'm one of those people who hit others 
over the head with a big bat labelled RTFM so I'm actually fairly paranoid 
about doing that myself first.  I was not able to do it, and got to the 
point of deciding that touching the code was the least-outrageous thing to 
do to get it working.

I think the moral of the story is that the faint of heart should stick to 
one interface.

P.S. in my experience other Unices have similar levels of excitement when 
you go to complex configurations so I do NOT consider this a fault of the 
Linux implementors.


>   > If you read the Ethernet HOWTO, I believe you will find that it is
>   > possible to configure ethernet devices w/ lilo.
>
>   Unclear if you can do this with more than one device.  Even less
>   clear if you can do it with two of the same type of device (e.g.,
>   two NE2000 cards).
>
>Lilo configuration allows passing of parameters to the kernels main
>function.  This is done in much the same way as 
>	hd=cyl,sec,trk
>All you need to do is trace through the code to find the magic cookie.
>
>The faint of heart should consult the Ethernet HOWTO.
>
>		Dan.
>
>
>

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