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Date:      Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:02:05 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
To:        Gustau =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= i Querol <gperez@entel.upc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem adding more than 8 network adapters
Message-ID:  <20120829090205.GA75022@server.rulingia.com>
In-Reply-To: <503C930C.3010405@entel.upc.edu>
References:  <503C930C.3010405@entel.upc.edu>

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On 2012-Aug-28 11:44:44 +0200, Gustau P=E9rez i Querol <gperez@entel.upc.ed=
u> wrote:
>   I'm running FreeBSD 9.1 RC1/AMD64 with VirtualBox. The problem I'm=20
>facing is that I can't use more than 8 network adapters plugged to the=20
>virtual machine.
=2E..
>    I don't know if it's a net@ problem or maybe it is a problem with=20
>the emulated PCI-bridge and then stable@ should be contacted. Also, I'm=20
>not sure if a real machine would support more than 8 network adapters or=
=20
>not. Any hints would be appreciated.

I don't think I've ever used more than 6 physical NICs in a host but don't
know of any reason for >8 to not work.

Can you please post a "pciconf -lv" from FreeBSD and the equivalent
"lspci" from Linux.  A FreeBSD verbose boot log might also help.

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Peter Jeremy

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