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#! rnews 1689 bsd Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.pbi.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!198.6.9.51!news.thepoint.net!not-for-mail From: "Arlie Davis" <arlie@test.thepoint.net> Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system? Message-ID: <01bc05c6$54508d80$070906c6@roanoke> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 05:05:01 GMT References: <6OBfLaMbNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5ar8e1$prf@nike.volvo.se><5ari97$o01@innocence.interface-business.de><6OVunZMMNgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de><5b05fe$4aj@innocence.interface-business.de><6OW5ep16NgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5b6eop$o0h@uriah.heep.sax.de><6OhJND_6NgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de><5bddhi$181@innocence.interface-business.de><6OpOl6n6NgB@me-tech.pfm-mainz.de> <5bihnj$bn7@innocence.interface-business.de> Organization: ThePoint Internet Services, Inc. X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1160 Lines: 12 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1944 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5639 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34195 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5196 J Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> wrote in article <5bihnj$bn7@innocence.interface-business.de>... > Yep, and the answer to _this_ question is ``yes'', but this didn't > help you in the end. You can have a dozen of network cards in a BSD > system (but not in a PC, since you'll run out of IRQ lines :). Not if you use some of the PCI quad-Ethernet cards. Four Ethernet ports on one card, using a single IRQ. No, the IRQ is not shared; it's designed that way. -- arlie