---------- quoting Joshua Banks ---------- > 1) Can I just follow the same instructions within the Intial Gentoo > Install guide to get this Second card to work and,
yep, should be pretty straight forward. shutdown, insert NIC, boot, compile NIC drivers (say: kernel modules, make modules modules_install), modprobe <driver> and "ifconfig ... up" to test it. Then you can just modify values in /etc/conf.d/net for your 2nd NIC and after a reboot you should be fine. > 2) Is there any recommendations (do's/don'ts) as to mixing or matching > when using multiple network cards? I'm assuming Linux will take > anything that you can plug into it just about.. :P that's sort of a standard scenario, so you don't have to be afraid :) > 3) The network card connecting to the cable modem will negotiating at > 10baseT-HD or 10Mb half-duplex. The other nic on the internal lan will > be running at 100baseTX-HD. Are there any any foreseen horrors with > this type of setup (specifically downloading and file transfers going > from a 10Mb to 100Mb and vicea-versa) or is this a pretty common > scenario? I wouldn't bet my house on that, but I am quite sure that this isn't a proiblem. Linux (Kernel) will handle this... HTH! Greetings, Matthias -- It's wonderful, it's magical. Oh boy, here it comes. Another mouth. -- Homer Simpson And Maggie Makes Three -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list