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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
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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