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Re: Multiple network interfaces



"Mark L. Kahnt" <kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org> writes:

> 2) Linux, iirc, requires a kernel driver for each individual ethernet
> card, meaning that if you have two or more identical ethernet cards, you
> need the driver twice. The only way to do that is to compile it as a
> module, rather than into the kernel, and then set it up in /etc/modules

     I have two identical NICs in my machine.  I use `ether=0,0,eth1'
appended to the kernel line in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file (it will
also work in lilo and loadlin).  I believe I successfully used this
when I was running a monolithic kernel, but I now have the drivers as a
module. 

Regards,

Bob
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