[KLUG Members] Smoothwall and Lan Cards

[Adam Williams]

>I have two questions... :)
>1.  I'm trying to install Smoothwall on a computer.  I
>put an old 14.4 modem and an NE2000 compatible net
>card into an old 486.  I can't get the install to
>recognize the network card.  I've tried three slightly
>different NE2000 nic's and tried them in three
>different computers (486SX-20 8MB RAM, 486DX2-40 8MB
>RAM, and a 486DX4-80 16MB RAM).  The autoprobe doesn't
>pick them up, and I've tried to manually specify the
>driver, but it complains that it can't load the
>driver.  I successfully installed a copy of RedHat 5.2
>and had it working fine as a Web server, so I know the
>cards work.

Perhaps the ISA slots in the firewall machine are on a riser?  That can
cause problems with some brands of NE2000 cards.

Do you know the IRQ/IO address of the NE2000?  Very often these can't be
picked up by PnP under any OS.

>2.  I'm looking at attempting to to a LTSP terminal
>server project at home and am lacking bandwidth.  I've
>got 10Base-T network.  I was wondering if there was a
>way to get my terminal server to use two network cards
>in parallell to give me more bandwidth with several
>clients running at once.

Sure.  If you have a switch that supports trunking one can usually have
up to four ports "bonded" together.  If you don't you can place each
interface in a separate subnet and assigned some clients to one subnet
and some to the other.  This will quasi-balance the traffic onto both
cards.  Be sure to set some clients to use each interface as their XDMCP
server as well (in lts.conf).  With X11 it is easy to bury a 10Mbps with
three clients.