Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:21:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Abbaasi Hasan <abbaasi77@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 2 NICs Message-ID: <20010813081716.L28610-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010813113733.91252.qmail@web9708.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Abbaasi Hasan wrote: > Hi all Hi Abbaasi, > i use FreeBSD 4.2 > i have 2 3Com NICs and want to configure them, > one of them has been detected automitically as ep1. > First i want to know what is "ep" and what is its > difference to ed and other such abreviations. man ep more /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT /Network > For identifying next card should i place next line in > kernel configuration file and /etc/rc.conf as ep0 or > ed0? Depends on whether it is ISA or PCI. If it's PCI, turn off PNP in your BIOS. > Should the NIC cable be plugged to card for FreeBSD to > ping cards successfully? Since the ping utility is used to verify connectivity, yes. Cheers, Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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