From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 10:46:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mato.com (Mail.mato.com [199.240.78.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C27FD15323 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dragonk@mato.com) Received: from dragonk [199.240.78.226] by mail.mato.com with smtp id 119BJ7-0003RD-00; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:46:30 -0600 Message-ID: <001101bed857$eb4255a0$0101a8c0@mato.com> From: "Dragon Knight ][" To: "rlh217" , References: <32DA27A7.196CFB29@gte.net> Subject: Re: Network Cards Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:46:11 -0600 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 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You do NOT need to have the same (type/model of) network card in two computers to network them. Though the network cards must be for the same type of network (eg: ethernet), so that you will have the same type of connections/same type of cable going to each in most cases. But there are definitely exceptions. And the network cards must be compatible with the OS in which itis installed. In my room I have 3 different brands of Network cards connecting 3 different types of systems. I would suggest you search the net for some basic networking how-to's. Samuel > Do you have to have the same network card to network two computers > together with FreeBSD? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message