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From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system?
Date: 18 Jan 1997 17:11:36 GMT
Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway
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[Paul Civati]

|   I think you can use multi port (Zynx?) cards to get more.  Not sure how it
|   was done but I've seen a *BSD PC with about 12+ UTP ethernet ports on it
|   (consisted of 3x 4-port PCI cards I believe).

There are two-port cards available from SMC and ZNYX, and four-port cards
available from Cogent and ZNYX. The SMC cards use two INTs, the ZNYX and
Cogent cards only use one INT.

Yes, 12+ ports are certainly possible. I have configured one with 7 ports
myself (4 + 2 PCI, ZNYX and SMC) and one ISA NE2000 clone. Worked fine.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no