> 
> I am now off to work (after this coffee) to continue with the upgrade
> of our core routers to a slightly wider framework to cope with all the
> additional Ethernet traffic. Ouch.
> 
> Users. They expect it to work. sigh. :-)
> 

Yeah man check it out 15 ETHERNETS IN ONE NETBSD BOX!!!

NetBSD 1.1 (4LCOW) #0: Mon Jan 29 19:56:41 GMT 1996
    ronald@netbsd.demon.co.uk:/home/sys/arch/i386/compile/4LCOW
CPU: Pentium (GenuineIntel 586-class CPU)
real mem  = 66715648
avail mem = 61276160
using 840 buffers containing 3440640 bytes of memory
isa0 (root)
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 1033MB, 2100 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec <ST51080A>
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
ep0 at isa0 port 0x280-0x28f irq 9: aui/bnc/utp address 00:a0:24:49:64:34
ep1 at isa0 port 0x300-0x30f irq 10: aui/bnc/utp address 00:a0:24:4b:fa:52
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
pcprobe: reset error 1
pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: mono
pc: timeout updating leds
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
root device eisa not configured
pci0 (root): configuration mode 1
pci0 bus 0 device 0: unknown vendor/product: 0x8086/0x122d (class: bridge, subclass: host, revision: 0x02) not configured
pci0 bus 0 device 7: unknown vendor/product: 0x8086/0x122e (class: bridge, subclass: ISA, revision: 0x02) not configured
pci0 bus 0 device 8: unknown vendor/product: 0x1011/0x0001 (class: bridge, subclass: PCI, revision: 0x02) not configured
pci0 bus 0 device 9: unknown vendor/product: 0x1011/0x0001 (class: bridge, subclass: PCI, revision: 0x02) not configured
pci0 bus 0 device 10: unknown vendor/product: 0x1011/0x0001 (class: bridge, subclass: PCI, revision: 0x02) not configured
de0 at pci0 bus 0 device 11pci_map_int: pin A mapped to line 5
 irq 5: DC21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.2 Ethernet address 00:00:c0:56:4d:cf
de0: enabling 10baseT UTP port
de1 at pci0 bus 1 device 4pci_map_int: pin A mapped to line 12
 irq 12: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1c:ec
de1: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de2 at pci0 bus 1 device 5: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1c:ed
de2: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de3 at pci0 bus 1 device 6: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1c:ee
de3: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de4 at pci0 bus 1 device 7: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1c:ef
de4: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de5 at pci0 bus 2 device 4pci_map_int: pin A mapped to line 11
 irq 11: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:18:7c
de5: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de6 at pci0 bus 2 device 5: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:18:7d
de6: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de7 at pci0 bus 2 device 6: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:18:7e
de7: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de8 at pci0 bus 2 device 7: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:18:7f
de8: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de9 at pci0 bus 3 device 4pci_map_int: pin A mapped to line 7
 irq 7: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1c:dc
de9: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de10 at pci0 bus 3 device 5: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1c:dd
de10: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de11 at pci0 bus 3 device 6: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1c:de
de11: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de12 at pci0 bus 3 device 7: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1c:df
de12: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
biomask 58e0 netmask 600 ttymask 12


NETBSD ROCKS! :-)

Regards,
Neil.

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