Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

[Emil Pedersen <emilp@update.uu.se>]

Ron Farrer wrote:
> 
> #include <hello.h>
> 
> 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?

You will have to set the IO to different addresses for the cards, as
long as you can do this using the same brand works fine.

Using two different brands (or actually chips) you'll probably have to
use two modules using more memory (not that I think it will matter much
though).

Perhaps you will need extra memory even if the cards use the same
chip-type with different addresses, but I guess it will at least be less
than having two different modules loaded.  (Someone please comment this,
or more generaly kernel modules memory usage...)

Good luck

// Emil



> 
> TIA,
> Ron
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