more 3C900-combo data points

[Paul Tod Rieger]

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Donald Becker wrote:

> Normally the 3c900 advice is to force the media type selection, since
> detecting the media types without link beat (10base2 or AUI) isn't
> reliable. But I suspect that this is a simple routing problem.

You're absolutely right: Although I had added "options=3" to select
10base2, I had not tested the card as eth0, which is a fully working
interface.

So I loaded just the 3c59x driver and set up just eth0 -- and the 3c900
worked!

Still, I do want it to work as eth1.  So I'll ask a (slightly off-topic)
routing question: I first set up the ne2k-pci card as eth0 (cable modem
WAN) with:

ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR_0} netmask ${NETMASK_0} broadcast ${BROADCAST_0}
route add -net ${NETWORK_0}
route add default gw ${GATEWAY_0} metric 1


Then I try to set up eth1 (192.168.4 LAN) with:

ifconfig eth1 ${IPADDR_1} netmask ${NETMASK_1} broadcast ${BROADCAST_1}
route add -net ${NETWORK_1}


But that's not enough.  Do I need something like:

route add 192.168.4 gw 192.168.4.1 metric 1

?

Thanks for any more help!

Tod