Re: nic issue on Debian Lenny
On Fri, Mar 26 at 10:55, Stephen Powell penned:
>
> First of all, when you say that you have "two onboard nics", I
> interpret that to mean that there are two network adapters built-in
> to the motherboard, as opposed to separate network adapters
> installed in a bus-slot. Is that what you mean? That would be
> unusual. It's quite common to see a motherboard with a built-in
> ethernet adapter, but I haven't seen any motherboards with *two*
> built-in ethernet adapters. Usually, if a machine has two ethernet
> adapters, it either has two stand-alone NICs or else it has one NIC
> built-in to the motherboard and one stand-alone NIC. But anyway ...
Just to chime in here, I have a motherboard with two ethernet ports,
each with its own MAC address. It's the Asus P7P55D EVO. (And for
anyone searching for linux-compatible hardware - I haven't tried to
install linux on it, so I'm afraid I don't know if it is compatible.)
--
monique
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