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Date:      Fri, 18 Jul 1997 00:37:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        NetSonic <support@netsonic.com>
Cc:        QUESTIONS@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel Ether Express Pro 100/B trouble.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970718003543.283V-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19960719203722.00e1d570@mail.netsonic.com>

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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, NetSonic wrote:

> and ifconfig -a reveals
> 
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 207.250.84.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 207.250.84.255
>         inet 207.250.84.235 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 207.250.84.235
>         inet 207.250.84.237 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 207.250.84.237
>         ether 00:a0:c9:5f:f8:38
> ed0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 207.250.84.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 207.250.84.255
>         inet 207.250.84.233 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 207.250.84.233
>         ether 00:40:05:18:83:d7

It appears that these cards are connected to the same Ethernet segment. 
That is a no-no.  The BSD networking system doesn't support multiple cards
on the same segment in the same machine. Routing becomes infinitely
complex in this scenerio; no one can tell just who (by hardware address)
to send the packet to.

Take one or the other out and you should be OK.  I'd suggest the NE2000 :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail    | Death to Cyberpromo




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