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Re: Network Problem...



On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Benji Selano wrote:

> I have 3 Linux boxes with 2 NIC's... 
> All of them use the same hardware... (PIII 500\ one 3com-3c905c-TX\ one
> Realtek-RTL8139\ Redhat 6.2...)

    for multi-network machines I usually compile a kernel with the
    associated network-card built-in instead of being handled via module.

    then I also use boot parameters that you can set in your lilo.conf
    according to this manual page : 
	man 7 bootparam

    and I add a line that more or less look like this in order that switching
    the cards or adding another device or upgrading kernels won't change
    the order of detection of those cards and thus switch incidentaly the
    networks addresses from one to the other in some future restarting...

    in lilo.conf in the global part (for example):

    append = "ether=,1080,eth0 ether=,1060,eth1"

    with this line eth0 will always match the card that is in addr=0x1080
    and eth1 the one in 0x1060. I don't use IRQ because with some mainboards
    PCI cards may change their attributed IRQ from boot to boot according to
    new devices.

    to get the corresponding addresses just use a 
	cat /proc/ioports
    to figure out which addresses are used by your network cards.


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