On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:35:11PM -0600, Robert Guthrie wrote: > On Saturday 03 March 2001 09:48 pm, Eileen Orbell wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am building a debian firewall box as a senior project. What is the > > best way to install and config 2 Nic cards (PCI Linksys) Would I > > install one before I install Debian? Then install the other or probe > > for both during the install? Any other things I need to consider. > > > > Thanks > > One thing that may help you out is the pciutils package. They will give > you nice formatted data on what is plugged into the pci bus. Very usefull > for diagnosing problems with any pci hardware, as well as figuring out > what i/o addresses devices are being given. Good advice. I was once bit by a PCI NIC which kept getting IRQ 0 assigned which made it quite useless for transferring data. One thing I haven't yet seen mentioned is that the interfaces will be assigned in MAC address order; eth0 will have a "lower" MAC address than eth1. So it's ok to install both cards right away as long as you have a good idea which will be eth0 :) Finally, I highly recommend the "ipmasq" package. It's quite tunable. OTOH if you're trying to do this all from scratch you will be disappointed by how easy this all is with ipmasq :) > Also, just a nit to pick: NIC = "Network Interface Card", so the phrase > "NIC cards" would translate to "Network Interface Card cards". You can > pluralize nicely just by saying "NICs". Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine; > right up there with mispellling ;-) ATM machine PIN number NT Technology (check out the win2k boot screen) Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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