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From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system?
Date: 18 Jan 1997 12:54:07 GMT
Organization: XCIV
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In article <5bihnj$bn7@innocence.interface-business.de>,
j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>> It has been a very clear question. I have been asking for running several
>> networking cards in one system and I got a lot of feedback of friendly
>> people, it *is* a very clear question.
>
> Yep, and the answer to _this_ question is ``yes'', but this didn't
> help you in the end. You can have a dozen of network cards in a BSD
> system (but not in a PC, since you'll run out of IRQ lines :).
I think you can use multi port (Zynx?) cards to get more. Not sure how it
was done but I've seen a *BSD PC with about 12+ UTP ethernet ports on it
(consisted of 3x 4-port PCI cards I believe).
-Paul-
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