From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 19:16:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E1F16A41F for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:16:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D42A43D45 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:16:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j7IJGd33000998; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:16:39 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j7IJGdLK000997; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:16:39 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:16:39 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Daniel Valencia Message-ID: <20050818191639.GB28174@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050818183655.22192.qmail@web53906.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050818183655.22192.qmail@web53906.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple interfaces X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:16:40 -0000 --yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:36:55AM -0700, Daniel Valencia wrote: > Hello, everybody >=20 > Is there any limit as of how many interfaces can > freebsd handle? Im trying to build a switch in a PC > box, putting multiple NICs and some software... The > issue is, even though all of the cards work correctly > by themselves, once I put them together, it doesnt > matter what slots i use, I can never make more than > two of them work. For even though all the rest appear > up as well, I cant ping neither them nor their peers > (Im using crossover cables). The software limit is 2^16-1. It sounds like you are having hardware issues. I'd tend to guess interrupt routing issues. I'd suggest posting details to freebsd-questions or possibly freebsd-stable. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDBN6WXY6L6fI4GtQRApnQAKCLjuPxI/to57Bk2k2f1VBhBXOVlgCfd/Al tKNss+urrmeVOSAMll0YQKc= =q0it -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yEPQxsgoJgBvi8ip--