Riley Williams wrote:
> One of my systems has SIX ethernet cards, these being three ISA and
> two PCI NE2000 clones and a DEC Tulip. Here's the relevant section of
> modules.conf on the system in question:
>
> Q> alias eth0 ne
> Q> options eth0 io=0x340
> Q> alias eth1 ne
> Q> options eth1 io=0x320
> Q> alias eth2 ne
> Q> options eth2 io=0x2c0
> Q> alias eth3 ne2k-pci
> Q> alias eth4 ne2k-pci
> Q> alias eth5 tulip
You have six drivers loaded, when you only need three (i.e.
io=0x340,0x320,0x2c0 for ne options etc. etc). So you end
up wasting some memory, and a worse icache behaviour as well.
(the latter is probably a non-issue if you are happy with ISA)
Paul.
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