--- "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---------- 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...
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