Re: help with firewall / milo

[Alvin Starr <alvin iplink net>]

On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, James Peret wrote:

> I am trying to setup a firewall on my PC164.  i have two ethernet cards,
> a DEC tulip and a 3com 3c905b-tx.  I am running redhat 5.2 with a 2.2.7
> kernel.  
> 
> What is the best way to get linux to recognize two ethernet cards.  I
> tried turning on a second adapter in linuxconf, compiled the second
> ethernet driver into the compiler, and followed the firewall howtwo on
> redhat's site.  
> Problems are:
> 
> RedHat's howto is for intel, they say nothing about milo.  (can i pass
> the same parameters to milo?)
> 
> compiling the second ethernet card into the kernel hangs on boot.
> without the driver i can connect to the second card only.  (the first
> card seems to be disabled; it is in an upper pci slot).
> 
> linuxconf won't recognize the second ethernet adapter.
> 
> Has anyone configured an alpha as a firewall?  if so, how?

I have several systems with 3 network cards.

I have used modules. If you go the module way you can configure the
devices in the /etc/conf.modules file.

But you can pass the same parameters that the intel version expects to the
kernel and it should work.

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