RE: dual port nic

2002-05-07 Thread Wolftales
> -Original Message- > From: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 10:48 AM > To: Quenten Griffith > Cc: debian-users > Subject: Re: dual port nic > > > > > > As far as I can tell, they're just two NICs on > >

Re: dual port nic

2002-05-07 Thread David Wright
> > As far as I can tell, they're just two NICs on > > the one card, and the system treats them as such. Really? That means the two ports can be bound to different interfaces (eth0 and eth1) with different IPs? I ask because, the PCI bus of my 3-network bridge being rather full, I wanted to buy

RE: dual port nic

2002-05-07 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| Does anyone know if Debian supports Dual Port nics. I have a box with a Compaq 3122(?) dual port nic which IIRC is basically a dual 3121 (which uses the eepro100 drivers). It finds both ports just fine. Dual port nic support is probably driver specific. In the case of the eepro100, it is. HTH

Re: dual port nic

2002-05-07 Thread Quenten Griffith
Ok thanks for you the quick response, I have no knowledge on how these work and before I got one I wanted to make sure they are suppoted under the current linux, I figured they where, but I just learned these things exsited today. Simon Young wrote: Hi, On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:05:46AM -0