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Date:	Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:10:20 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Injoy Firewall Pro

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In <3DA39432.F0E17927@attglobal.net>, on 10/08/02
at 06:28 PM, Harry Chris Motin said:

>connected to your internal network via a hub. Two NIC cards have been a
>historic challenge for OS/2 users. Few if any identical cards work in
>OS/2. Intel makes a NIC card for servers that has dual ports, which can
>be made to work on OS/2, ....,

That's not true. Most NIC drivers will work fine for multiple card
instances. Consider that there are a significant numbers of Warp servers
out there. Do you think they don't use identical NIC's. The key is to
understand how to use the SLOT parameter to configure the driver.

>...., but many low cost adapters are suitable for OS/2. It should be easy
>to find two with different chipsets to use."

Why bother?

I put this with much of the other OS/2 folklore.

An example of how to do it correctly can be found at:

http://www.arnold-ont.ca/os2/os2_user_262.html

Steven

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