Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

[Damon Muller <dm-debian-user@empire.net.au>]

Quoth Ron Farrer, 
> I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was
> best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is
> there any gotchas for doing one over the other?

I find that's it's easier to use two different cards (not just different
brands, but different chipsets) because you can easily dictate which one
will be eth0 and eth1 in /etc/modules.conf.

Using the same brands will certainly work, but you'll probably end up
juggling them around to work out which one is which.

cheers,

damon

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