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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:33:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        melvin@mailmall.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using Multiple Network Cards
Message-ID:  <199902191633.LAA09804@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <008e01be5c14$217e9e00$827788d1@melvin.pitllc.com> from Melvin Brown at "Feb 19, 99 08:28:33 am"

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Melvin Brown wrote,
> I am using FreeBSD 3.0 with multiple network cards in my system.  They are on different IRQ and are PCI.  I notice that I am always getting this error message:

We need to know more about your setup. How about relevent dmesg output
and rc.conf for starters? But I can tell you what this seems to be saying:

[cut down to just unique lines]
> arp: 209.12.230.1 is on fxp1 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp2
> arp: 209.12.230.1 is on fxp1 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp0
> arp: 209.194.168.1 is on fxp0 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp2
> arp: 209.194.168.1 is on fxp0 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp1
> arp: 209.136.141.1 is on fxp2 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp0
> arp: 209.136.141.1 is on fxp2 but got reply from 00:10:7b:87:ac:e2 on fxp1

Notice the MAC address is the same. _All_ of this is one card talking
to itself, and it looks very confused.

> Is there a problem with FreeBSD running multiple network cards?

People do it all of the time.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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