On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > Whats the most ethernets anyone has shoehorned into a single PC? > > We managed 20, using 5 quad tulip cards: > > CPU0 > 0: 108511 XT-PIC timer > 1: 2168 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 5: 10 XT-PIC eth3, eth6, eth9, eth12, eth19 > 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc > 10: 10 XT-PIC eth1, eth4, eth11, eth14, eth17 > 11: 10503 XT-PIC eth0, eth7, eth10, eth13, eth16 > 12: 10 XT-PIC eth2, eth5, eth8, eth15, eth18 FWIW, you can only use up to eth15 on 2.2.x kernels with a modified tulip driver. This restriction has been removed in 2.4.x. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
