[techtalk] Re: Problems with two ethernet cards

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

Hey All,
  You can adjust the settings (IO,IRQ) of your 3com cards via their dos
setup utility. There really is no need to buy another card.
HTH,

Harry Hoffman
Manager - Information Technology
Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
206.634.3082 x. 270

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Justin Zygmont wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, bill t wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Here is the situation.
> > 
> > I am building a firewall with an old 486 33 Mhz.
> > Motherboard = ???
> > ram = 20 M
> > hd = 800 M
> >  2 3com 3c509 ethernet cards
> >  1 56 k zircon internal modem
> > 
> > The problem.
> > The network hangs.
> > if one ethernet card is started I can ping the test machine easily. When the
> > second is turned on everything freezes.
> > 
> > Questions
> > 
> > Has anyone seen this before?
> > Is there a fix?
> 
> Yes.  I had the EXACT same problem.  Your 3c509's are defaulting to IRQ 10
> since they are PnP.  My solution was to but a jumpered SMC card for $5 and
> set it's IRQ to something other that 10.  The remaining 3com will work
> fine.  The 3coms will chose IRQ 10 regardless of any software settings.
> 
> hope this helps...
> 
> 
> > For the record I haven't gone through the howto networking on this yet but
> > plan to download the most recent.
> > 
> > Any help would be appriciated
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Bill 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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