Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:58:25 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>, "Michael Aucoin" <maucoin01@mediaone.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Different Device Names for Identical NICs Message-ID: <08cc01c0ac54$2b79b240$817e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <004101c0ac52$99befbe0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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I've never used more than two in a system, and then only rarely. None of the systems was heavily loaded .... mostly email plus a limited amount of other traffic. I could imagine there would be problems using 5 .... must use every possible IRQ the things can be configured for !!!. > The 3c509 driver is still a bit flaky, I'm sorry to report. > I was setting up a router a while ago where I wanted to > install a total of 5 3c509 cards. This was an older 486/66 > with all ISA slots and a SCSI card, and no serial, parallel > or rodent port cards in it. I was able to get the ep driver to > recognize all 5 cards, but no matter how I switched the interrupts > and ports around with the 3c5x9cfg program, I could never > get more than 4 cards to actually send and receive packets on > the Ethernet. (and yes I had all other nic drivers disabled) > I've also had weird problems with 3c579 cards in EISA boxes > which use the same driver. > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Young > >Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 9:19 PM > >To: Rick Hamell; Michael Aucoin > >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: Different Device Names for Identical NICs > > > > > >Are you certain ?? ..... I don't have the machine here right now but I'd > >swear I've > >had two 509s in one of those prehistoric Unisys systems with the > >16 x 30 pin > >RAM > >slots & both working OK > > > >> > >> > Is it possible to use two identical NICs in the same system? > >I have not > >> > been successful in that it seems only one device name is > >recognized (ep0 > >> > for my two 3c509s). > >> > >> You need to recompile your kernal with ep1 in there to reconize > >> the 2nd NIC. :) > >> > >> Rick > >> > >> > >> 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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