From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 00:36:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA23327 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:36:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA23322 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:36:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA09938; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:36:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kim Shrier cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for 5 or more PCI ethernet cards In-Reply-To: <346CEC40.99C8A4ED@createtech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Kim Shrier wrote: > I am considering using a FreeBSD box to do routing between 5 > different ethernet segments. Are there any motherboards that > support 5 or more PCI slots and will the ethernet drivers > cope with that many NICs in a single box? I will probably > need to handle more segments in the future and I would like > to have a box that could cope with 8 NICs if possible. I've seen PII motherboards with lots of PCI slots. THe drivers can handle it no problem. Also, some vendors have multi-port Ethernet cards which combine 2 or 4 cards onto one board. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major