From: becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) Subject: Re: Two NE2000 boards in one machine ? Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 18:39:44 GMT
In article <jstark.729361801@mcshh.hanse.de> jstark@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Jens Stark) writes:
>I would like to use a linux computer as central TCP/IP host for our
>company network. ( Why shouldnït I ? It works, it does TCP/IP, its
>inexpensive and obviously stable... Even NAMED is available !)
Yes, Linux is pretty close to being a regular network box. I hope
that it soon becomes _the_ standard gateway solution.
>I have to resist to ask if there is ISDN/PPP-Support, but I wonder if
>it is possible to use more than ONE NE2000 board.
There isn't any ISDN support that I know of, and SLIP is getting more
attention than PPP (although some of the SLIP code is designed to
support the changes to make it PPP).
I'm doing multi-ethercard support now. It will only work with 0.99.5+
kernels and will be in alpha test in less than a week.
BTW, There have been some name changes for the ethercard driver
FTP sites. The directory names have changed, and 'super.org' is now
'ftp.super.org'. Get the README file from
usra.edu:/pub/linux/README
or
ftp.super.org:/pub/linux/README
The 0.99.5 drivers are in the ether-995 directory:
ftp.super.org:/pub/linux/ether-995/*
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