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From: jca@bighorn.accessnv.com (J.C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system?
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Date: 8 Jan 1997 04:16:43 GMT
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Michael Schmidt (mschmidt@me-tech.PFM-Mainz.de) wrote:

: Well, to put it a bit concisely,  the background of my question has to do  
: with a comparison of the subject (related to BSD systems) with an other  
: operating system (QNX, also allowing several networking cards in it with load 
: balancing) and apart from that it has to do with some kind of licensing,  
: where the latter can arise as the more interesting point.

I have yet to find a BSD derived system that can't.  Even older versions
of SunOS 4.x support multiple NICs.  I suspect you can put in as many NICs
as you have slots and system resources for.  FreeBSD is just derived from
BSD 4.4 Lite.  Free, Net and Open BSD are all derived from the same
sources.  Many *BSD users do drop in multple NICs and use a supported box as
a router.  Linux is often used for the same thing as well.
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