Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:06:29PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote:
| 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.
I have 2 tulip cards in this machine (it is my workstation and also
gateway for DSL) and I could pick which was which by which PCI slot
they were in. The kernel picks it based on the id number. I agree
that using different chipsets (regardless of brand) is easier because
you can set/switch it with aliases in /etc/modules.conf, but I haven't
had any problems with this setup.
-D
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