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On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Abbaasi Hasan wrote:

> Hi all

Hi Abbaasi,

> i use FreeBSD 4.2
> i have 2 3Com NICs and want to configure them,
> one of them has been detected automitically as ep1.
> First i want to know what is "ep" and what is its
> difference to ed and other such abreviations.

man ep

more /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT
/Network


> For identifying next card should i place next line in
> kernel configuration file and /etc/rc.conf as ep0 or
> ed0?

Depends on whether it is ISA or PCI. If it's PCI, turn off PNP in your
BIOS.


> Should the NIC cable be plugged to card for FreeBSD to
> ping cards successfully?

Since the ping utility is used to verify connectivity, yes.

Cheers,

Dru


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