On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:02:33PM -0600, Dave Kleist wrote:
> Something in my feeble brain seems to remember reading something about 
> using two identical NIC cards in a box makes it more difficult to set up a 
> firewall.  Is this right or am I just mishmashing stuff in my brain?

Depends on the cards.  With the Intel EtherExpress Pro PCI.  I slapped 3
of 'em on the bus, booted with an appropriate kernel, and it Just Worked
without any problems.  But another time I tried some old PnP ISA cards
and had no success at all.

ISTR reading somewhere that that's the general pattern:  Multiple similar PCI
cards will generally work fine, but with ISA cards, it's going to be a pain
(if it's even possible).

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