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
--
_
|_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
|_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <bob@bobhilliard.net>
Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559
Reply to: