> -----Original Message----- > From: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:48 AM > To: Quenten Griffith > Cc: debian-users > Subject: Re: dual port nic > > > > > > As far as I can tell, they're just two NICs on > > > the one card, and the system treats them as such. > > Really? That means the two ports can be bound to different interfaces > (eth0 and eth1) with different IPs? > > I ask because, the PCI bus of my 3-network bridge being rather full, I > wanted to buy one from 3com ( > > http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/detail.jsp?tab=features&pathtyp e=purchase&sku=3C982-TXM ), but their rep told me it was just used for failover -- the two ports could only transmit the same data.
Depending on the NIC, yes, as someone pointed out already. The amount of interfaces on a single card is not the issue. The chipset used by the card for those interfaces is. I have had a 4 port card running under both debian and Redhat, which used the tulip driver. In both cases it was addressable as eth0, eth1, eth2 . . . and all interfaces were independent. Same goes for Sparc based SBUS cards with multiple interfaces. It depends on how the card was built and whether you have the appropriate driver for it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
