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Date:      Sun, 5 Jul 1998 12:29:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: replace linux by freebsd?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705122140.28418A-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980705105606.147A-100000@gromit.eu.org>

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On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Paul Dekkers wrote:
> Device	Type	Bus	Interrupt	IO
> eth0	3c509	ISA	11		0x320
> eth1	ne2000	PCI	12		0x6200
> eth2	ne2000	ISA	7		0x300
> eth3	ne2000	PCI	9		0x6000	(recently replaced)
> eth4	ne2000	PCI	10		0x6100
> eth5	ne2000	ISA	5		0x340

> Is this at all possible under FreeBSD? And with my current CD-set, 2.2.1,
> can I still use all of these cards, and route between them, and do natd
> for all of the networks via eth0 (for about 50 clients max at a time I 
> think)...

The most I've used is 4 nics but there shouldn't be any problem
with the above.  I have one machine routing a combination of RFC1918
address space and public space for about 20 sw developers.  Oh, it's
also acting as a firewall permitting only established TCP connections
incoming.  The client has a T1 connection and everyone is really happy 
with the system's performance.  It is a P166 with 32meg but that is
probably overkill.

> By the way, the machine is a pentium-60, with 16 Mb's of memory (It was
> running fine for a year of two with slackware 3.1, and bootpd, but since
> the network card went defect, the problems kept coming... and never went
> away... (can there be some hardware failure?))

Going from stable for two years to daily reboots does suggest a
hardware problem :)  Did you take a power hit?

Dan
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