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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: 19 Jan 1997 08:33:43 GMT
Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway
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[Thor Lancelot Simon]

| >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.

Um, the SMC uses INTA and INTB - it is of course up to the BIOS to map
these. The Cogent and Znyx cards *only* use INTA, so there's no way to
map those (two or four) ports to more than one IRQ.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no