From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 14 4:59: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40DD714C19 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 04:59:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-mdt.sentex.net (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA17378; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:58:58 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: sks1974@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh Kumar Satapati) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring Router Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:58:58 GMT Message-ID: <3805c496.636518194@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Oct 1999 18:42:38 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >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. Having 2 network cards is not a prerequisit for a router. One interface can be on two logically separate segments. (i.e. you alias the interface to be on a different address. >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. If you had the room in your machines, you could fill it with network cards. Thats not a problem. They get refered to sequentially (e.g. ed0, ed1... edN) The cards should have different IO addresses and IRQs. Have a look at the documentation for the cards, or perhaps search through some of the hardware newsgroups on how and why you want your PC cards to have different IRQ settings. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message