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#! rnews 1667 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!newsfeed.nacamar.de!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news.gtn.com!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!www.punkt.de!not-for-mail From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: maximum ethernet devices on freebsd 2.1.7 Date: 18 Mar 1997 13:16:35 GMT Organization: WEB Internet Services Message-ID: <01bc339e$bc81be00$f3e94dc2@hugo09.ticsoft.de> References: <332D3BDA.41C6@webcity.nl> <5gm1ki$fkn@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hugo09.ticsoft.de X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Lines: 27 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37259 Brian Somers <brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org> wrote in <5gm1ki$fkn@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>... > In article <332D3BDA.41C6@webcity.nl>, > jasper Lankhorst <jasper@webcity.nl> writes: > > I wonder if someone can tell me how many ethernet devices can be > > configured on a freebsd system. > > > > I would like to build a router with these "new" quartet ethernet cards. > > > > So 4 times a quartet ethernet card gives me lots of ethernet segments, > > but how many segments does freebsd support ? > > As many as you can get into the box. > > > Which quartet board is recommended? (10 base T) > > > > Thanx, > > Jasper > > I can't remember now - it may have been an SMC card, but it has a > 21x4x chipset (uses the de driver). I've had a good experience with the Znyx boards, they seem to be quite common in Europe. Siemens Nixdorf sells them as an OEM product, for instance. Patrick