From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 14 4:57:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BCF14C19 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 04:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA52653; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:57:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <199910141157.HAA52653@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: Configuring Router In-Reply-To: from Suresh Kumar Satapati at "Oct 13, 1999 5:32:58 pm" To: sks1974@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh Kumar Satapati) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:57:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, You can use two identical cards in your router box. They can use any IRQ or addresses you have available. We can't really tell you which to use; that depends on your hardware setup. ==ml > Hai > > I have FreeBSD latest version installed on my machine. I have a 3Com > 3c509b network interface card in it. Now i want to make my machine a > router, for which i need another NIC besides the existing one. My query is > that would there be a problem if i try to use two identical n/w interface > cards to configure my m/c as a router. Is it possible or allowed to do so? > If yes, what IRQ numbers and addresses do these cards use ? > Somebody please help me in this regard. > > Thank you. > > Suresh > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message