Subject: Re: Double Net cards?
From: Vanja Bucic (vanjab@UDel.Edu)
Date: Fri Mar 30 2001 - 17:11:17 MST
> I m wondering if you could have a script shut down the interface and
> restart the adapter if it can't ping your router. On the other hand, if
> you can get the tulip card to work, I don't forsee it going down much
> if at all - DEC made a very robust chip, and the driver support (at
> least, on most other Linux platforms) really takes advantage of the
> hardware
Do you know of any scripts like that? I had thoughts like that, but just
couldn't make one that worked well.
> Also, you can play tricks with the netmask. You can give both cards a
> netmask of 255.255.255.128, but that may cause problems if your version
> of the kernel doesn't like sending packets to a router that it doesn't
> consider "local" (a bitwise AND of 128.175.14.23 and 255.255.255.128
> does not equal the AND of 128.175.14.184 and 255.255.255.128).
I will try this.
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