[realtek] Re: realtek 8139 problems

Asten asten77 at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 8 16:15:17 PST 2005


I'm not sure why you have both cards in here in the
first place.

The routing tables are identical, so when both cards
are plugged in, the results are unpredictable.   

You could adjust the 'metric' line for the card you
take out to be higher than the card you leave in.  It
would then prefer the card you leave in, but if it's
not there, it would use the other card.   The lines
that configure this are in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 on a
slackware system.

--asten


--- Cem Kizil <sercesme12 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> 
> both cards are in the system at once, eth0 is 10Mbps
> rtl-8029 172.16.1.11 255.255.0.0, eth1 is rtl8139
> 172.16.1.12.
> My windows box is 172.16.1.10 255.255.0.0 
> My network setup is just P-2-P, just my windows box
> and my linux box.
> output of ifconfig is spot on, my 10Mb card at
> 172.161.1.11, no errors, and no packets dropped,
> zero collisions; exact same output for my rtl8139
> except for ip address (172.16.1.12).
> 
> route -n output:   
> 
> Destination            Gateway          Genmask     
>     Flags         Metric          Ref         Use   
>       Iface
> 
> 172.16.0.0 0.0.0.0      255.255.0.0      U       0  
>       0         0            eth0
> 172.16.0.0 0.0.0.0      255.255.0.0      U       0  
>       0         0            eth1
> 127.0.0.0  0.0.0.0       255.0.0.0         U       0
>         0         0            lo 
> 
> 
> no irq problems with two nic's, eth0 using 11 and
> eth1using 9. But on system startup it says my serial
> bus controller irq is 11, same as eth0's irq. but
> doubt very much thats problem because nic still
> functions with no problems. Nothing else uses irq 9.
> 
> My 10Mb card works fine, both when the rtl8139 is
> connected in system and when removed. 
> 8139 doesn't work when 10Mb card is connected in
> system; but works when 10Mb card is removed.
> not sure what flags, ref, use is, any definitions
> will be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sam
> 
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