Re: Dual ethernet cards

[Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca>]

I've never  seen the  errors you describe,  but I  do run 2.2.17  on a
firewall/router  with  two NICs.  I  accomplish  this  by passing  the
arguments 

ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=3,0x280,eth1

to the kernel. 

-chris

Steve Doerr <sdoerr@swbell.net> writes:

> Hello.
> I just rebuilt the 2.2.17 kernel for a firewall/router and got the
> following errors with my NIC's.
> 
> /var/log/debug - eth0 no IPv6 routers present
> /var/log/dmesg - IP-Config: No network devices available
> 
> lspci -vvb lists both cards and I added the appropriate "append=" line
> to lilo.conf.
> 
> I followed the firewall/ethernet howto's about building the kernel for
> this as best I could (it has changed a little bit).  The card support is
> in the kernel and not a module.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas what I overlooked, or what might be wrong?
> 
> Thanks for any input.
> Steve
> 
> 
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