Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:

> I need to set up a firewall for my lab here. Could somone recommend
> a good multiport ethernet board for NetBSD ?

Something of interest, that I saved a copy of..

-Paul-


From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,
 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running several networking cards in one system?
Date: 18 Jan 1997 17:11:36 GMT
Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway
Message-ID: <5br088$e5s@verdi.nethelp.no>

[...]

There are two-port cards available from SMC and ZNYX, and four-port cards
available from Cogent and ZNYX. The SMC cards use two INTs, the ZNYX and
Cogent cards only use one INT.

Yes, 12+ ports are certainly possible. I have configured one with 7 ports
myself (4 + 2 PCI, ZNYX and SMC) and one ISA NE2000 clone. Worked fine.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no