Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
--- Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- quoting Joshua Banks -- Thanks Matthias. you're welcome ;) please report if you succeeded with your 2nd NIC! Pretty painless once all the research was done. The most confusing part was the fact that my nic card read as being a model 3c905 and this wasn't a given choice in: /lib/modules/'uname -r'/kernel/drivers/net Alittle google'ing helped figure that confusion out. 1) Added/edited 3c59x to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 2) cd /etc/init.d 3) cp net.eth0 net.eth1 4) Manually added new interface ifconfig eth1 (ip-address) broadcast (broadcast address) netmask (netmask address) No need for a gateway address as of now. So I didn't use route add to add the default gateway yet. 5) Edited /etc/conf.d/net to add eth1's interface info. 6) rc-update add net.eth1 default 7) Edited Shorewall/firewall interfaces file, to make it aware of the newly added interface. 8) Verified ping connectivity and new eth1 interface statistics via ifconfig eth1. 9) Set eth1 link speed to 100Mb-HD via mii-diag -F 080 eth1. Was set to full duplex. Not sure why that happened since eth1 and eth0 are plugged into a 10/100 hub and I'm not using patch cables that I don't believe would support Full-Duplex anyways. 10) Reboot to varify everything works after reboot via shutdown -ar 11) Pointed internal Windows machines to the new eth1 interface for their DG's for internet access. Dialed-up and all internal machines were able to gateway through eth1ppp0intenet Success.. Wahoo... Now I just sit and wait (with anticipation) for Comcast to turn on the 3Mb-down/385KB-up switch.and say bye-bye to my clunketty dial-up. Although dial-up is slower than crap, it works well and I will always be able to fall back on it when Comcast isn't working correctly. Which I here, happens allot with Cable internet access. To all who responded to this thread, Thanks for your support/comments :D Joshua Banks __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
Hello, I'm going to be putting another network card into my Gentoo box as soon as Comcast goes live with the highspeed internet. Right now I'm using: Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) Subsystem: Netgear FA310TX I will be adding a 3Com 3C905-TX (Rev A) as the second network card. 1) Can I just follow the same instructions within the Intial Gentoo Install guide to get this Second card to work and, 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 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? Thanks, Joshua Banks __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
-- 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
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
--- 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... Thanks Matthias. Joshua Banks __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
-- quoting Joshua Banks -- Thanks Matthias. you're welcome ;) please report if you succeeded with your 2nd NIC! Greets, Matthias -- I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in. -- Homer Simpson Homer the Great -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
--- Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- quoting Joshua Banks -- Thanks Matthias. you're welcome ;) please report if you succeeded with your 2nd NIC! Will do. Thanks, JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
Then you can just modify values in /etc/conf.d/net for your 2nd NIC and after a reboot you should be fine. I had problems setting the gateway for both nics in a single file, so I made separate net.eth0 and net.eth1 files in /etc/conf.d I'm not sure if this is the correct way of doing things but it works Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
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... Linux handles this just fine :) Don't forget that one of the first things that Linux was developed for was networking, it wasn't an afterthought (like other OSs I could mention :) so pretty much any networking situation will be handled just fine! knock on wood alan -- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://arcterex.net There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games.-- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
--- Tom Hosiawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then you can just modify values in /etc/conf.d/net for your 2nd NIC and after a reboot you should be fine. I had problems setting the gateway for both nics in a single file, so I made separate net.eth0 and net.eth1 files in /etc/conf.d I'm not sure if this is the correct way of doing things but it works Good call Tom. I didn't even think about that little (major) detail. H... Eth0 is going to be connected to the cable modem via dhcpcd. Eth1 is going to be connected to the internal lan via static address of 192.168.1.1. I'm using Shorewall firewall right now and eth0 is masq'ed out through ppp0...let me seeHmm.Well I just looked at /etc/conf.d/net and eth0, which is (now) 192.168.1.1/24 doesn't have the Gateway set. So I don't see needing to do anything with the type of setup that I'm running when the time comes to install the other nic. All that I will be doing is adding and extra entry to the above file leaving the Gateway unset like it is now and I should be good to go. Thanks for pointing that out though. JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Multiple Nic's.
--- Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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... Linux handles this just fine :) Don't forget that one of the first things that Linux was developed for was networking, it wasn't an afterthought (like other OSs I could mention :) so pretty much any networking situation will be handled just fine! knock on wood Thanks for the confident confirmation Alan. That always helps. JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
