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From: "Arlie Davis" <arlie@test.thepoint.net>
Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system?
Message-ID: <01bc05c6$54508d80$070906c6@roanoke>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 05:05:01 GMT
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J Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> wrote in article
<5bihnj$bn7@innocence.interface-business.de>...

> 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 :).

Not if you use some of the PCI quad-Ethernet cards.  Four Ethernet ports on
one card, using a single IRQ.  No, the IRQ is not shared; it's designed
that way.

-- arlie