Action:
To configure LRP using 2 different types of network cards.
Do this procedure after step (6)

Note: It is bad to mix a NE2000 ISA card and a NE2000 PCI card in the same box because
the ne and ne2k-pci drivers get totally confused in that situation.

Advantage of using 2 different types of network cards:
You have complete control of the order which the drivers are loaded, hence you control which card is used as eth0 (connect to cable modem or ADSL) and which card is used as eth1 (connect to your internal network). So there is no guess work for eth0 and eth1.

Disadvantage:
You have to manually edit a file.

Boot up LRP, login as root, q to drop to command prompt.
Type lrcfg to call up menu, choose 3-Packages
Choose 2-modules
Choose 1-modules:

For example, if you use a NE2000 (ISA) for eth0 and a Realtek 8139 (PCI) for eth1:

pci-scan rtl8139 driver depends on pci-scan , hence pci-scan must be loaded before rtl8139.
8390 both ne and rtl8139 depends on 8390, hence 8390 must be loaded before them.
ne  io=0x300  ne (NE2000-ISA) driver (assume IO set to 300)  (this driver depends on 8390)
rtl8139 Realtek rtl8139 driver (this driver depends on pci-scan and 8390)

The order of the above lines is important, the first driver detected is loaded first and it
becomes eth0, the second driver detected becomes eth1.

Crtl-S and Enter to save, Ctrl-C, q twice to go back to the main menu,
Backup, Modules
reboot

 

Last revised: January 21, 2003

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