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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:06:40 -0500
From: "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Support for 5 or more PCI ethernet cards
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On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 12:36:34AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> 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.

Could you please recommend a multi-port Ethernet card that is known to
work with FreeBSD (2.2.5-RELEASE)?

> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 

-- 
Regards,
Norm