In article <Pine.NEB.3.96.980619182307.14913B-100000@what.openface.ca>,
	blackbox@openface.ca writes:
> I plan to make a cheapo IP-accounting router box ---

Multiple port ethernet cards are *never* cheap. They are always a lot
more expensive than the same number of single cards.

[Except if you find a silly salesman who forgets the leading digit of
 the price. But that's a differen story.]

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/