Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-15 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > #include > > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? Thanks to everyone that responded. It seems tha

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread Emil Pedersen
Ron Farrer wrote: > > #include > > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? You will have to set the IO to different addresses for the cards,

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Ron Farrer, > > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? > > I find that's it's easier to use two different c

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
[Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:44:52PM -0700] Ron Farrer : > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? > Is there any gotchas for doing one over the other? None at all, AFAIK. I am using an Intel Ether Pro+ and an RTL 8029A on the router. The LAN consists of machines ha

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 01:06:29PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: | Quoth Ron Farrer, | > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was | > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is | > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? | | I find t

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread john
Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Ron Farrer, > > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? > > I find that's it's easier to use two different card

Re: dual NICs, same brand or not?

2001-10-14 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Ron Farrer, > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > there any gotchas for doing one over the other? I find that's it's easier to use two different cards (not just different brands, b

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-22 Thread Oki DZ
John Galt wrote: > Wrong! eth0:1 and eth0:0... _Never_ say something's impossible... Especially when it is on _Linux_. Oki

Re: dual NICs (fwd)

2001-05-16 Thread John Galt
oft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 16:56:06 -0600 (MDT) From: John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthew Sackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: dual NICs On Wed, 16 May 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: >On Wed, May 16,

Re: [: Re: dual NICs]

2001-05-16 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:22:06PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > Um I'm getting slightly confused here: what I need is one card which has two > or more independant eth ports on it which can be assigned seperate IPs. I.e. > not IP aliasing - each eth port has only one IP address, but each eth p

[: Re: dual NICs]

2001-05-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
- Forwarded message from - To: John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: dual NICs On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:06:31AM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2001, Zac Epkes wrote: > > >You can not have 1 NIC with 2 IPs simply not possible, i think u can buy >

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-16 Thread John Galt
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Zac Epkes wrote: >You can not have 1 NIC with 2 IPs simply not possible, i think u can buy >network cards with upto 4 ports that all act alone, or something similar... Wrong! eth0:1 and eth0:0... _Never_ say something's impossible... >- overid3 =) > > >On Tuesday 15 May 20

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?prodkey=ANA-62022&cat=%2fTechnology%2fFast+Ethernet%2fDuraLAN+Network+Interface+Cards Adaptec Duo64 ANA-62022 ( Dual NIC ) http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?cat=Test&prodkey=ANA-62044 Adaptec Quartet 6944A ( Q

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Phil Brutsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > You can not have 1 NIC with 2 IPs simply not possible, Perfectly possible. The mail server at work has 3 IPs. One of the ethernet ports on the firewall has 2 IPs. Think IP aliases (the o

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya if you need 4 eth ports for each different ethernet cable... thats one problem... - use 2x dual nic pic cards.. - use one quad nic pci card - but i sounds like oyu need a quad nic card ( intel, adaptec, dlink ).. if you need 4 virtual ip# and dont care that

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Zac Epkes
You can not have 1 NIC with 2 IPs simply not possible, i think u can buy network cards with upto 4 ports that all act alone, or something similar... - overid3 =) On Tuesday 15 May 2001 14:12, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Hay all. > > Does anyone have any knowledge of a network card that has two > i

Re: dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Rich Puhek
Adaptec makes a 4-port PCI card, Intel has some two port cards. I'm sure there are others out there as well. If I remember correctly, the Adaptec unfortunately took an IRQ for each port, which was a bit of a pain. --Rich Matthew Sackman wrote: > > Hay all. > > Does anyone have any knowledge o