From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261556AbUBUN4Q (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:56:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261557AbUBUN4Q (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:56:16 -0500 Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net ([216.254.0.203]:22469 "EHLO mail3.speakeasy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261556AbUBUN4M (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:56:12 -0500 From: NoTellin Organization: --NA-- To: Linux Kernel Development Subject: Multiple NIC cards in the same machine and 2.5/2.6 Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:15:55 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402210815.55770.notellin@speakeasy.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I use an iptables based firewall. I currently have 4 NIC cards in the machine. My modules.conf file contains the following lines: alias eth0 ne alias eth1 ne options eth0 -o ne-0 io=0x300 irq=3 options eth1 -o ne-1 io=0x200 irq=5 alias eth2 winbond-840 alias eth3 3c509 This works perfectly fine for the 2.4.x series of kernels up to and including 2.4.24 However, I can't get this to work in any 2.5/2.6 kernel. The 2.6 series of kernels will recognize that there are 3 nic cards but doesn't seem to accept 2 copies of the ne nic drivers in memory. I've tested this up to and including 2.6.3. I've tried researching this on the 'Net but I've only been able to find references suitable for the 2.4 and lesser series of kernels. Could someone point me to the equivalent information for 2.5/2.6 and higher? Configuration: 90 MHz Pentium Classic, 64 meg ram, 3 gig hardrive. eth0 - ISA NE2000 - ADSL connection to Internet eth1 - ISA NE2000 - Lan Segment 2 connection eth2 - PCI Windbond - Lan segment 1 connection eth3 - ISA 3com - Cable Modem (backup) connection to the Internet. Thank you everyone. Guy -- Free Speech is better than Free Beer