From: Gerry Chilibeck 
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@Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:40:47 -0800
Subject: Re: Getting 2 NICs to work
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Thanks, Stephen, but I am going to go the KISS approach (Keep it simple, stu*id).
ie: that may be ok for eCS, but I am not prepared to pay the price of trying it in 
my W98 partition.  All it cost is a NIC driver change in MPTS and a reboot.
That's KISS for me.

.... Gerry 

** Reply to note from Stephen Worthington  Thu, 11
Dec 2003 03:28:09 +1300

> > Because I just got this second NIC (VIA) running, I thought I
would just leave 
> > both installed, and have a BU NIC available should I need it...by
just moving the 
> > plug.  So, frankly, not a big deal!!  ....and not doable.  Thanks
for you time. 
> >  
> > ........ Gerry  
>  
> No, not doable as you were trying.  I have never done this, but in 
> theory, you can use the metric values in the routing table to do 
> something like this.  Presumably, you have a default route going via 
> the 3Com NIC to the router.  That will have metric 1.  If you give a 
> different IP address to the VIA NIC, you should be able to add a second 
> default route with metric 2 going to that address.  Then you can have 
> both NICs cabled to the router all the time.  I think the router will 
> also need a route with metric 2 back through the VIA NIC.  When you 
> want to use the VIA NIC, unplugging the 3Com NIC might be enough to get 
> the packets to travel the higher metric route if the software sees that 
> the 3Com NIC is disconnected.  If it does not automatically see this, 
> then it can be told using an "ifconfig lan0 down" command, in which 
> case you would not need to unplug the cable.





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