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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system?
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mschmidt@me-tech.PFM-Mainz.de (Michael Schmidt) writes:

>Is it possible to drive and to use several networking cards in one NetBSD  
>machine/system?

Sure, if your hardware supports these.

On i386 systems, look over the kernel config file, the interface names
and the related values for interrupts etc are listed (if applicable).

If you boot a system with several network cards in correct hardware
configuration and the right kernel configuration to match the hardware
configuration, you will have more than one interface visible.

`ifconfig -a` should show these (more than one interface).

Then, edit your /etc/rc-scripts to ifconfig each interface.

Martin
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