[techtalk] Re: Problems with two ethernet cards

[bill t]

Thanks to everyone who replied. I am grateful. I will implement the solution
this weekend.

Thanks,

Bill

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 06:54:56 -0700 (PDT), moebius at ip-solutions.net wrote:

>  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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