On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Daniel Ryde wrote:
> I've tried searching to almost no avail for multiport ethernet cards that
> can run under Linux. I'm trying to build a multiport masqurading
> router/firewall to connect several company networks (20 or more) to the
> Internet, but with these networks totally separated from each other. And
> maby some of them to have real IP addreses to let traffic through from the
> outside.
>
> I've found a dual port Tulip based card that works here, but that limits
> the number of ports to 8 or so. I've seen 4 port cards (Adaptec I guess),
> that would hopefully give me 16 ports. I would really like an 8 port card,
> but that depends on the prize. I have to compare prize of ports and prize
> of machine to get the most valuable combination.
>
> Does the IRQ sharing work reliably for more than two ethernet ports on one
> IRQ (thats what we have on the machine here and it works).
>
> Limits? Caveats?
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Daniel Ryde, System Administrator
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Try http://www.znyx.com/, they make a 4x100BaseT PCI card that we use.
Each card only uses one IRQ and the use the standard tulip driver. We
have two cards in one machine now with no problem and hope to have it up
to 4 cards in the near future.
BTW, has anybody used a passive backplane with Linux? I've seen boxes
that have up to 20 isa/pci slots, that would make a nice ethernet router
;)
-d
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