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Hi, folks!
I'm a network administrator typing from Brazil and I'm facing a crazy problem with Red Hat 6.2. I installed two ethernet cards (already tried a lot of models of 3Com (905b, 905c, 980) and also Realtek (8129, 8139)) on a PIII-1.13GHz, and the situation is the following: - The cards doesn't work if both are enable, but if
I disabled (ifdown) one, the other begins to respond to ping;
- I'm using static IPs on both interfaces (eth0 is 200.251.242.1 and eth1 is 10.0.0.1); - Ifconfig detects both (eth0 and eth1) at irq10 and irq11, respectively; - I tried to swap the cards to different slot positions to avoid conflicts, but fails; - There's no conflict between the cards, cause I tried to install other versions of Red Hat (7.2, 7.3) and the machine works well; - I tried to compile the driver sources into the kernel instead of modules, but anyway without success; - I also tried to upgrade the original kernel (2.2.14-5.0) to the newer version (2.4.20). Guess what? Same problem; - At last, I tried to do all these things in a complete differente machine expecting hardware incompatibilities... Same situation; Has anybody experienced
similar problems using two ethernet cards with Red Hat 6.2? Am I doing something
stupid? Is there some secret in this version that I don't
know?
I would like to justify that I need too much that this thing works because I have an outdated commercial software that runs well just on Red Hat 6.2. Please, somebody help me!
I would be greatly thankful.
Happy new year! PS: Sorry about my poor english :-)
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