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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) 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: 19 Jan 1997 00:38:53 -0500 Organization: Panix Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5bsc1d$hg4@panix2.panix.com> References: <6OBfLaMbNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5bihnj$bn7@innocence.interface-business.de> <5bqh5f$7u@xciv.demon.co.uk> <5br088$e5s@verdi.nethelp.no> Reply-To: tls@rek.tjls.com NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1900 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5582 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34010 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5158 In article <5br088$e5s@verdi.nethelp.no>, Steinar Haug <sthaug@nethelp.no> wrote: >[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. That's not necessarily correct. It's all dependent upon how your BIOS (on the PC) or operating system configures the PCI bridge and the Ethernet chips behind it. -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM Stumbling drunk in the railyard looking for God: http://www.panix.com/~tls/