Topic: SME 6.0.1 using two NIC's with the same drivers

[jrgns]

When you have two nic's in a box, both using the same drivers, you can't access the box at all.

This happened to me with a 6.0.1, using tulip drivers, but I heards that it was a previous issue as well

[Quadrax]

Hello,

Do you have others NIC to check if the problem comes with your specific NIC or with  a configuration using two identical NIC ?

I can use SME 6.0.1 now (a SCSI CD-rOM not supported by 6.0.1 bu supported by 5.6 (...). If you want, I can try with two identical NIC : RealTek RTL8139-C or Intel pro 100.

HP

[jrgns]

When I took out one nic, it started working like a dream.

It's not that it's two identical nic's, just that they use the same drivers.

If you can test it with other hardware it would be interesting.

[RavenIV]

in my server there are two RealTek RTL8139.
both use the same driver and the box has no problems.

cheers.

[Quadrax]

Hello,

I'm using two RTL8139C NIC with the same driver without your problem.
Oups !
I'm tired! I'm using SME 5.6 on this server (...) Sorry.
No problem with two Intel Pro 100 NIC on SEM 5.6 too.

May be it's your specific adapters. Can you try two others "identical" cards like RTL8139, Intel pro 100 or others ?

I have a question : When you said "I use the same driver for both", it's under Admin (blue & grey ASCII interface), you obtain txo identical lines about drivers for your NIC.
I don't know why but I use first line for the first NIC (required for LAN) and second line for second NIC (for PPPoE).

[CharlieBrady]

When you have two nic's in a box, both using the same drivers, you can't access the box at all.

This happened to me with a 6.0.1, using tulip drivers, but I heards that it was a previous issue as well

You either need to swap your cables LAN <=> WAN, or you need to choose "swapped" rather than "normal" for the NIC allocation. The linux kernel chooses for itself which bit of hardware is eth0 and which is eth1. You need to adapt to that, and connect your LAN to eth0, or reconfigure SME so that eth1 is considered the LAN. I'd recommend the first option.

[NickCritten]

I have experienced this problem before, but only with 3Com cards...

I usually put two different makes of cards in anyway, makes it infinately easier to distinguish between the two during install.