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Re: Advanced Network Config

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Johnson)
Thu Oct 22 10:29:44 1998

Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:27:45 -0400
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From: Mike Johnson <Mike.Johnson@GSC.GTE.Com>
Cc: popowich@acsu.buffalo.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.04.9810220947220.28909-100000@hercules.acsu.buf
 falo.edu>
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At 09:51 AM 10/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Is it possible, with a 3Ccom 3C900 combo card and Red hat 5.1, to use
>the ethernet connection (RJ-45) as the connection to the outside world
>and then add a private network behind the machine using the BNC
>connection?  I currently have the ethernet connection working.  At the
>very least, I would like to add a few computers to the BNC connection
>for file and print sharing purposes, but, if they could get the
>outside world connection that would be great.  Any thoughts would be
>greatly appreciated.  Please send all replies to both me and the list.

Er, no.  You can't do that.  Only one physical interface on the card can
be used at a time.  It'd be easiest to just get another ethernet card...

Mike

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Mike Johnson - mike.johnson@gsc.gte.com
Network Engineer - Prototype Development
GTE Government Systems - All opinions are mine, not GTE's.


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