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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-stkh.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!nntp-oslo.UNINETT.no!nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!not-for-mail From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: multiport fast ethernet card support? Date: 09 Oct 1996 23:52:34 GMT Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 18 Message-ID: <53hds2$8mm@verdi.nethelp.no> References: <c4aaftv20j9.fsf@skat.usc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aun.uninett.no In-reply-to: taweil@skat.usc.edu's message of 9 Oct 1996 16:14:24 -0700 [taweil] | We are looking for some multiport ethernet card supported by | FreeBSD. The source code on the tulip (DEC 21x4x chip) seems to say | the multiport card from SMC and Cogent are supported. I wonder if | anyone out there has experience using these multiport cards with | FreeBSD. Moreover, how many of these cards can FreeBSD supported in | one PC? I have had good experience with the SMC two-port and the ZNYX four-port cards. Both seem to work just fine. We have one machine with one each of these cards, for a total of 6 Ethernet ports. In theory you could put one four-port card in each PCI slot, so you could have at least 16 Ethernet ports. Don't expect to be able to run all of these at full capacity simultaneously, though :-) Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no