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by **frogbo** » Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:00:00

I bought 2 lilnksys fasteithernet cards 10/100 and i can only get 1 to
work by itself, not both. when i installed both cards the kernel
recodnized them and i was able to configure them, but they would not
pass traffic. one by itself worked great.
is there any doccumentation avalible on this issue?

thanks
-frogboy

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by **Allan Sadd** » Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:00:00

> I bought 2 lilnksys fasteithernet cards 10/100 and i can only get 1 to
> work by itself, not both. when i installed both cards the kernel
> recodnized them and i was able to configure them, but they would not
> pass traffic. one by itself worked great.

I'm not too clear on what the problem is, but since you say both cards
are recognized and they both work individually, I'm guessing you want to
route packets from one interface to the other.

You need to enable packet forwarding. To do this, issue:

sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1

But packet forwarding will only be enabled until you reboot. To enable
packet forwarding all the time:

1. Edit /etc/rc.conf
2. Add the line:

gateway_enable="YES"

Quote:> is there any doccumentation avalible on this issue?

This is basically what I mentioned:
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/networking.html#AEN2678

This has a little blurb about dual-homed hosts:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/routing.html

HTH.

--
Allan Saddi "The Earth is the cradle of mankind,

http://www.philosophysw.com/asaddi/ forever." - K.E. Tsiolkovsky

by **David Malo** » Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:00:00

>I bought 2 lilnksys fasteithernet cards 10/100 and i can only get 1 to
>work by itself, not both. when i installed both cards the kernel
>recodnized them and i was able to configure them, but they would not
>pass traffic. one by itself worked great.
>is there any doccumentation avalible on this issue?

Do you mean that traffic was not routed between interfaces, or that
the second interface didn't work? If you want to act as a gateway/router
then you probably want to add:

gateway_enable="YES"

to /etc/rc.conf.

David.

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