From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 18:30: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26793150C6 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:29:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA89851; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:29:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA28297; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:29:55 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: sks1974@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh Kumar Satapati) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network interface cards Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 02:28:44 GMT Message-ID: <388d0a0a.167017034@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24 Jan 2000 19:45:26 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >Can i have two network interface cards, which are of similar type, and >NE2000 compatible in a single machine running FreeBSD3.3 ? I want to >configure this machine as a router. Any suggestions ?? Yes. If they are PCI nics and are NE2000, they will automatically be called ed1 and ed2. (ed0 is for the ISA variety). If the box is going to push serious amounts of traffic (i.e. you expect close to ethernet speeds), you would be well off to get something like the Intel Etherexpress PRO 10/100 cards. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message