[ILUG] smoothwall box

[olearypj at rte.ie]

Quoting Proinnsias Breathnach <proinnsias at project-bob.org>:

> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 05:57:55PM +0100, olearypj at rte.ie wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >          Just spent a few hours trying to get this smoothwall box
> running 
> > with 2 NICs but no joy. It will not recognise a 2nd NIC. The box is an
> old P11
> > & the NICs are old 3COM 3C900, both pci.
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks 
> >           Pat
> > 
> > BTW, the broadband works ok using just the ZyXEL 623R Prestige ADSL
> modem 
> > feeding router to the 3 pc's but i'd like to include the smoothwall
> box in 
> > the line if possible.
> > 
> good to hear about the router ... the two nics being the same is one
> you'll have to manually configure ... I've done it on another box ...
> give me a buzz / drop me a reminder email at some point tomorrow when
> I've got access to it and I'll point you to the right file to ammend ..
> 
> (basically it's a case of telling the smoothwall to configure two NICs
> that are the same .... but it's not something the interface does
> gracefully)
> 
> Proinnsias
> -- 
> 087 2767963
> 

Hi all,
       Thanks for all the advice, I was under pressure to get the system up 
& running fast & may have missed a lot of the obvious stuff.
In a nutshell, when I saw that Smoothwall had a problem with the 2nd card I 
replaced it with a different card ( rtl8139 chip set) & Smoothwall picked it up 
no problem but not the 2nd 3com card. I cant swear to this, but i'm sure that 
lspci has no refernece to the 2nd card.Having only one monitor is no help 
either, once the system was up & running I had to leave it running fo rthe 
weekend using just the modem feeding the hub & 2 pc's. hope to get back to it 
this evening.
BTW , I seem to remember reading in a HOWTO that getting Linux to accept 2 NICS 
was possible but not easy?

Regards
         Pat

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