Re: 7300 NAT/Firewall, AsanteFAST 590 NIC module?

[Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>]

On  17 Oct, this message from Bruce A. Burdick, Jr. echoed through cyberspace:
> Pilot error. The 2.4.18 kernel supports this card. After some fun with
> route, and figuring out which card is eth0, eth1, eth2 (always essential), I
> have it running.

If you want to make sure you always get it right which card is which,
three ideas:

- load the drivers as modules in the 'right' order. Only works if all
  three interfaces use different drivers.

- experiment with the ether= kernel command line (see the
  Ethernet-HOWTO). I used that one with two identical ISA boards in an
  i386 box.

- use _only_ ifup/ifdown to configure interfaces, i.e. adding all
  firewall scripts and commands in there. ifup has a way of identifying
  interfaces by MAC address; see
  /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/network-interfaces.gz.

Cheers

Michel

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