>From: "Fred Viles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On 29 Mar 99, at 23:21, Fuzzy Fox wrote about > "[Masq] Re: linux startup": > >| Charles Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >| > >| > My 2-cents worth: If you have 2 identical ethernet cards, they need >| > to be compiled into the kernel. It's in a howto somewhere; >| > apparently there are problems making eth1 start up if they're >| > identical and modular. > >I don't have any problem with two identical SMC cards with the WD >module in RH 5.2. But that's kernel 2.0.36. > >| That makes some sense, because you can't give the options in >| /etc/conf.modules. How would the kernel know to which card the options >| apply? It's the same module. > >You seperate the values with commas, as in: > > alias eth0 wd > alias eth1 wd > options wd io=0x300,0x280 irq=10,15 > >Apparently the first value for each option applies to eth0, the >second to eth1, etc. > >| Instead, you would need to "modprobe" the modules manually, specifying >| the cards in the order you want them to appear, eth0 first, then eth1 >| second. > >That wasn't necessary in my case. But perhaps not all NIC modules >support multiple values the way wd does... > >- Fred Viles <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I haven't posted here before but this particular discussion caught my attention simply because you are arguing a moot point. Really you can force the interfaces to be recognized in the order you want them either way. As Fred notes above you can set multiple values on the options line in the /etc/conf.modules file so that it loads one interface before the other (I have tried this with the ne drivers as well) if you are using modules. If you have the drivers compiled into the kernel you can add a line to your lilo.conf like so: append="ether=10,0x300,eth0 ether=5,0x200,eth1" so that it will look for eth0 at irq=10 io=0x300 and eth1 at irq=5 io=0x200. The only time I have seen a problem with getting interfaces to load as the desired number is with pci interfaces inserted as modules, and that is because pci modules don't generally take options. --Russ Russel Ingram Network Manager Albany County Public Library 310 S. 8th Laramie, WY 82070 (307)721-2580 _______________________________________________ Masq maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiffany.indyramp.com/mailman/listinfo/masq Admin requests can be handled by web (above) or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
