Hey all,

I'm building a Snort box and want to have two ip-less nics for detecting and one with IP for management. Using the hardware I've got (since we're in a budget crunch), I've scavenged together a Compaq Deskpro 4000, which has a built-in 10/100 NIC, to be used for management and a couple of old spare 3c595s we've got.

The 595s are calling for the vx kernel driver, and I was wondering why my generic kernel only loaded one of them, so I explicitly stated, in the kernel config, to load two, vx0 and vx1. Now they both appear, but they don't actually work.

I can ifconfig them up, but what happens is that one doesn't respond at all (no light on the hub), while the other immediately kills the hub by flooding it - the link light comes on, but so does the collision light, permanently, and my other workstation loses outside connection.

I'm working with 4.6.2. Anyone got suggestions? (BTW, I'm off-list so please include my addy in responses.)

-Robby

Robert Desmond
Systems Administrator
UCSB Extended Learning Services
805-893-4906


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