[techtalk] Problems with two ethernet cards

[bill t]

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.

Things to know:
interrupts
eth0 - 10
eth1 - 11
both use ioport 0300 - 030f ( I think this is the problem)

Questions

Has anyone seen this before?
Is there a fix?

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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