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Re: [LUG] Controlling multiple PCI NIC's



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Simon Waters wrote:
Neil Williams wrote:

My nice new Debian box has three NIC's, one fixed IP and two DHCP. I

have two


PCI cards and one ISA.


I haven't set up any sharing of the interfaces or masquerading or

bridging,


ipchains are clear (2.2 kernel).


I'm confused why a nice new Debian box would have a 2.2 kernel?!

Because some people want 2.2 (or they only downloaded CD1)


If 2.2 sort the speed and duplex with;

http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html

If 2.4 "apt-get ethtool" and specify it to run in the "interface" script
when it is brought "up" to make the relevant settings.

You may find ethtool for older kernels I believe.


I'm concerned your hardware doesn't just work.

I was wondering similar..


Does the switch have upgradable firmware?


I would assume the different eth numbers must be a BIOS thing as suggested. Maybe just disable plug and pray in BIOS. I would expect the MAC addresses to always be consistent with the physical card, so if all else fails you can script around it, although you seemed to doubt this for some reason?!

As regards dynamic interfaces not getting addresses, you'll have to
packet trace the DHCP negotiation to find out what is wrong. Whenever
I've been forced to do it, I've always found bugs in the Microsoft DHCP
server implementation :-(, but hopefuly they are better these days.


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