Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:58:58 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: sks1974@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh Kumar Satapati) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring Router Message-ID: <3805c496.636518194@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <MAILPine.GSO.3.96.991013172748.29159A-100000@dilbert> References: <MAILPine.GSO.3.96.991013172748.29159A-100000@dilbert>
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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
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