Second Ethernet

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

Axel IS Main wrote:

> It would appear the irq situation is not the problem. Why would I 
> worry about the mac being bound to a specific ethX? Ever hear of 
> kudzu? It works, you know. In any event, I believe I've traced the 
> problem to upgrades being done on the adephia cable network. I still 
> have one of the "old" modems so I can't change anything. It would seem 
> that even though the modem can be made to see the new mac, the system 
> won't assign an ip to a mac that it hasn't seen through that modem. 
> Once I get the new modem it should work. Until then I guess I'm just 
> screwed.
>
> Nick
>
> Aaron Matteson wrote:
>
>>Axel IS Main became daring and sent these 3.8K bytes,
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>>
>>>I actually tried that, but this stupid bios won't do it. For some reason 
>>>it won't put the second nic on a different IRQ. Still, I don't think 
>>>that's the problem any more. I took the second nic out and configured 
>>>the remaining nic to DHCP. It still didn't pick up the ip, etc., from 
>>>the cable modem. Man, I miss the days of having 5 IPs and a straight 
>>>line to the net!
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>No need to change irq's if this is a PCI nic, they are automatically
>>asigned differently unless you have a buggy BIOS. And you can bind
>>your MAC address to a specific ethX.
>>
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>>
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