From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 22 16:35:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA00685 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:35:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA00680 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA22728; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:04:46 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970923090446.38013@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 09:04:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: rpladers@tech.swh.lv Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com NICs References: <34266F35.9A@tech.swh.lv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <34266F35.9A@tech.swh.lv>; from Ralfs Pladers on Mon, Sep 22, 1997 at 04:14:29PM +0300 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Sep 22, 1997 at 04:14:29PM +0300, Ralfs Pladers wrote: > Good afternoon! > I'm very new to UNIX and FreeBSD too. I would like to use FreeBSD on PC > as firewall and use two 3Com 3900 XL PCI adapters. But I receive a > message that kernel is built for one device and interface vx1 cannot be > configured. Could you help me and answer: > is such configuration possible at all? Yes. > how should I rebuild(should I?) kernel?, If you don't have "The Complete FreeBSD", take a look in the online handbook. > what to change in configuration file? Add another 3Com. It's all in the handbook. > Maybe, there is somewhere ready kernel for such configuration? No, or at least, not for that purpose. Building a kernel isn't difficult, and there are millions of possible combinations. Greg