From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 3 16:39:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bedroom1.vagner.com (vsat-148-63-135-179.c2.sb4.mrt.starband.net [148.63.135.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D2137B416 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 16:39:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from thunderbird (thunderbird.vagner.com [192.168.0.4]) by bedroom1.vagner.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g140ekc08597; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:40:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from george@vagner.com) Message-ID: <00bd01c1ad14$8522dc10$0400a8c0@thunderbird> From: "freebsd" To: "Alex" , "shancecgol S Yorgen" Cc: "freebsd-questions" References: <20020203132540.854C237B402@hub.freebsd.org> <6635714765.20020203234429@cybertron.tmfweb.nl> Subject: Re: how to configure 2 lancards... Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 17:40:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 on another note, the 3c509 etherlink III is set for IRQ and addresses with a "DOS" program and must use different irq for each card. If they are set the same I believe you will have a big problem with the irq's conflicting. just my $.02 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex" To: "shancecgol S Yorgen" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: Re: how to configure 2 lancards... > Hello shancecgol, > > Sunday, February 03, 2002, 2:34:46 PM, you wrote: > > sSY> I setup my freebsd yeterday w/ 1 ISA 3com 3c509 lan card, when i did an ifconfig i saw that the device name "ep0" was there w/ my assigned ip_address. No, problem there, but now i want this box > sSY> to act as a gateway, so i installed a new lan card, still the same, an ISA 3com 3c509. I booted my system and i cant directly configure my 2nd nic through > > sSY> "ifconfig ep1 192.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0... up", > sSY> now i went to recompile my kernel and search of the nic, and saw an entry...: > > sSY> #ISA ETHERNET NICs. > sSY> device ep > > sSY> im not sure how to configure the kernel to detect my 2nd lancard, should put.. > > sSY> #ISA ETHERNET NICs. > sSY> device ep0 > sSY> device ep1 at isa? port 0x300 irq 9 > > sSY> ... is this right? or should i just leave it to the default "device ep", and it would detect my 2 lancard... if not, then what should i put in the kernel, what else do i need to configure to > sSY> make this work... > > sSY> thanx in advance!!! > > Im not 100% sure about this. I think the 'device ep' in your kernel > files says compile the code for all NIC of type ep. > > I would try to setup the second card at the rc.conf. Reboot and see if > you can use it. Ifconfig only set up your NIC up for the session. As > soon as you reboot its gone. > > > -- > Best regards, > Alex > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message