On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Mikey wrote:
> As it is booting up one of the messages that appears is:
>
>  ex0: interrupting at irq9
>  ex0: eeprom stays busy

Card is not enabled.

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Mikey wrote:

> > You do not need two network cards (nor two physical network interfaces).
> > I have often created gateways by using one physical network interface that
> > had multiple interfaces (IP aliases).
>
> And so this is where I could use the 'ip addr add ###.###.###.### eth0'
> command if I wanted to make the linux box the router. And if I want to make
> the BSD box the router  it would be 'ifconfig ex0 ###.###.###.### -alias'
>
> Well, I typed it into the BSD box and got an error message back:
>
>  ifconfig: SIOCDIFADDR: Can't assign requested address
>
> Could it be that I got a bad card?

Maybe.

Anyways "-alias" turns off (removes) the alias.


 Jeremy C. Reed

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