From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 22:16:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA24017 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:16:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from oskar.nanoteq.co.za (oskar.nanoteq.co.za [163.195.220.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA23990 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za) Received: (from rbezuide@localhost) by oskar.nanoteq.co.za (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA21415; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 08:12:21 +0200 (SAT) From: Reinier Bezuidenhout Message-Id: <199711180612.IAA21415@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Subject: Re: Support for 5 or more PCI ethernet cards In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Nov 17, 97 12:05:01 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 08:12:21 +0200 (SAT) Cc: nrice@emu.sourcee.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi ... > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Norman C. Rice wrote: > > > > 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)? > > I believe SMC and Zynx make Digital-based multiport cards. We have used the Zynx cards in a FreeBSD machine and got 12 devices fully working :) (3 x 4 port kards :) ) Bye Reinier