From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 23 17: 3:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vms4.rit.edu (vms4.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C08137B404 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:03:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sonic.rit.edu ([129.21.10.109]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40294) with ESMTPA id <01KDF8D460JODSZ02U@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:03:26 EST Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 20:03:04 -0500 From: Matt Penna Subject: Re: two network cards, IRQ's In-reply-to: X-Sender: mdp1261@vmspop.isc.rit.edu To: questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: Mike Walsh Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020123195529.03ba20d0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 06:52 PM 1/23/02 -0500, Mike Walsh wrote: >hey there, > >i'm trying to build a machine with two network cards on it so it can be a >VPN server. i'm building it with FreeBSD version 4.4, and everything seems >to be going fine except when it comes to configuring these two network >cards. i've been reading the documentation as well as the web and i can't >find anything on this particular topic. maybe someone over there can help >me out. > >here are my two cards, in terms of how FreeBSD views them. > > Device Port IRQ DRQ IOMem Description > dc0 n/a n/a n/a n/a DEC/Intel 21143 cards and workalikes > fxp0 dyn dyn n/a dyn Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B and Intel > PRO/100+ Management Adapter > >they both want an IRQ of 9. i thought of directly putting the IRQ in the >config file and making a new kernel, but it doesn't seem to apply. Mike, These are both PCI cards, are they not? PCI devices sharing IRQ's is no problem - the PCI bus was designed with that in mind. I've had 3 devices share a single IRQ before with no trouble at all. For the record, the only time I ever encountered an issue with IRQ sharing was with a USB HP scanner that - according to HP's documentation - didn't always work unless the USB controller had its own IRQ, but that was under Windows 98. Maybe I misunderstood your question, so let's back up - you posted here, so I assume the cards are not working for you. What's happening, exactly? Matt -- Matt Penna mdp1261@rit.edu ICQ: 399825 S0ba on AOLIM "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." -Dr. Who To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message