[LUAU] Multipile NIC's and Linux

[George Toft]

Myles Uyema wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, George Toft wrote:
> 
> > To echo Jeff - I ALWAYS use identical NICs.  I fought for
> > hours trying to get different NICs working together, and
> > I lost.  I know it can be done, but why waste the energy
> > when you can buy two LinkSys ne2000's for $20 each at
> > that expensive place with no customer service.
> 
> I went and bought two Linksys EtherFast 10/100 cards at compusa.com for
> under $60 which also included shipping/handling.  They were ~$25 each
> and the shipping came to less than $10.  I've got NT Workstation and
> Linux networked together via a cross-over cable running full-duplex
> 100-TX, and an ISA 3com Etherlink III (3c509b) hooked up to the cable
> modem.  So the linux box has two differing NICs running just fine.
> 
> Myles

I didn't say it was impossible, just that I can't
do it.  Also, I noticed quite a bit of traffic on
the Red Hat list (long time ago) and the SuSE list
about the same thing, so it's not just me.

Back to the original complaint - Sharky - did
you get 2 different NICs working?

George