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From: Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How many ethernet interfaces supported by FreeBSD?
Date: 13 Sep 1996 08:47:48 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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Message-ID: <51b73k$l7o@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>
References: <51ac45$3h9@pelican.cs.ucla.edu>
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In article <51ac45$3h9@pelican.cs.ucla.edu>,
Andreas Terzis <terzis@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> in some kind of mesh topology. My question is how many ethernet interfaces
> are supported by 2.1.5R and if 100BaseT is supported
100BaseT is supported in the SMC cards and maybe other ones. Check the FAQ.
As for how many, how many slots do you have in your PC ? How many IRQs ?
There are some DEC-based PCI cards (Zonyx?) which supports 4 10BaseT
interfaces per card.
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