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Re: 2 ethernet cards and loadlin



     Last night I tried the:

loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1  ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1 ro

There was no success there but I'm a little confused in that I 
thought that you just told the kernel that the second card was there 
and then it would look for it.  Most of the time I have been 
compiling the drivers into the kernel but I haven't gotten to it yet 
on this machine.  Does that mean that you need to take the approach 
that I was going tward if the driver is compiled in and the other 
approach if the driver is a module?  It would be nice it one approach 
would work in both cases so that if I changed from one method to the 
other that I wouldn't have to change things in several places to make 
the cards work.  Would it possibly be better to go to say ne2000 
cards, (which I have around) if there is a problem in probing the 
3c509 cards?  Or possibly having one ne2000 and one 3c509?

     The point to this, by the way, is to set up a machine between a 
DMZ (attached to a cisco router) and the rest of our network.  It 
will initially just route then probably get filtering added and 
finally (if the boss wasnts it) get a proxyserver.  Right now there 
is a different machine doing kind of a strange thing, by having an 
alias address on the single network card.  Both the DMZ and 
the main network are on the same ethernet cable but everything routes 
via this one card.  The addresses on the card are on different 
subnets and the machines on these subnets have it set as their 
gateway.  Strange but it works for now.


> The 3c509 card probe is a little strange and only works if you list
> them in the order of their ethernet MAC addresses.  If you just
> said ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1 it would find them both, but
> the eth0/eth1 names would refer to the wrong cards.
> 
> 


>Are you sure that the driver is compiled into the kernel? If you are
>loading the driver as a module, you'll have to take another 
>approach. Edit /etc/conf.modules and see if these three lines are 
>there:

> alias eth0 3c509
> alias eth1 3c509 
> options 3c509 io=300,310


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