PeasyWiFi - multi ethernet cards support <SOLVED>

[dcung]

I was testing on a computer that has 3 Ethernet cards - using Bookworm DDOG.

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05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
0e:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)

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[   13.448169] bnx2 0000:05:00.0 eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f8000000, IRQ 16, node addr 00:22:19:ae:ec:0a
[   13.466039] bnx2 0000:09:00.0 eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f4000000, IRQ 16, node addr 00:22:19:ae:ec:0c
[   14.717078] r8169 0000:0e:00.0 eth2: RTL8168e/8111e, e8:94:f6:02:95:45, XID 2c2, IRQ 33
[   14.717089] r8169 0000:0e:00.0 eth2: jumbo features [frames: 9194 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
[   17.870013] bnx2 0000:05:00.0 eth0: using MSI
[   18.385289] bnx2 0000:09:00.0 eth1: using MSI

I needed to use eth2 for the experiment I was doing.
And I found PeasyWiFi v4.9 did not assign/configure ip address on it (both DHCP or static) when using the third card.
In PeasyWiFi GUI, the interface drop-down only showed eth0, eth1.
But the IF button, showed all 3 - eth0, eth1, eth2.

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I installed frisbee to confirm eth2 is working. (And also to continue the experiment I was doing).

I am curious if anyone has been in a situation like this, ie. use more than 2 cards and able to use eth2 or higher with PeasyWiFi?
Or is 2 cards is the limit with PeasyWiFi?

[fredx181]

@dcung
Not sure (as I cannot test ethernet atm) but I think editing '/etc/pwf/interfaces' to this should work:

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ETH0="eth0"
ETH1="eth2"

Restart peasywifi and eth2 will appear in the dropdown box.

Or is 2 cards is the limit with PeasyWiFi?

Looks like it is for to show in the dropdown box but can be configured (e.g. as above) to use anything, I guess.

[dcung]

@dcung
Not sure (as I cannot test ethernet atm) but I think editing '/etc/pwf/interfaces' to this should work:

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ETH0="eth0"
ETH1="eth2"

Restart peasywifi and eth2 will appear in the dropdown box.

Or is 2 cards is the limit with PeasyWiFi?

Looks like it is for to show in the dropdown box but can be configured (e.g. as above) to use anything, I guess.

FYI - I did edit '/etc/pwf/interfaces', like so - and it didn't work - still only showed only Eth0, Eth1:

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ETH0="eth0"
ETH1="eth1"
ETH2="eth2"

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ETH0="eth0"
ETH2="eth2"
ETH1="eth1"

But your trick will probably work, I will try later today. Which will also confirm that PeasyWiFi has 'limit' of 2.

[dcung]

@fredx181
Tested - Yes, that works.
Thank you.