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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an ethernet switch...? Date: 30 Jan 1996 22:28:14 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 13 Message-ID: <4em61u$p7n@times.tfs.com> References: <davidtay-3001961206260001@206.65.200.5> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <davidtay-3001961206260001@206.65.200.5>, David Tay <davidtay@mx.intermac.com> wrote: >I know this sounds really mad.... Is there a way of assembling your own >ethernet switch? I've got like a dozen unused ethernet cards and a few >486's in the closet that I would like to make use of. Not that would be fast.. you'd have to do a lot of hacking..... it wouldn'tbe IMPOSSIBLE but it would hardly be freebsd either :)