On 1/23/23 17:54, Lars Bonnesen wrote:
How many physical NICs can you add to an OpenBSD host (vmx)
I am asking because I am running an OpenBSD on a VMware host but apparently
OpenBSD can only see 8 of them.
Can I raise the limit somehow?
Regards, Lars.
may years ago (back in the 3.x days, iirc), someone asked me to jam
a machine full of NICs and see what happened.
Four 4-port dc(4) NICs (16 ports) plus one 3com 3c905 on the main
board later, I saw no issues, but then I lacked any use for a 17 port
machine. If I recall properly, the person who asked me to do it was
expecting some kind of issue, but when I told him they were dc(4)s,
he was disappointed and said, "Well, of course those will work".
I had a machine for a while with something like ten or
eleven em(4)s in it, I had fired it up, don't recall seeing any
problems with it identifying all the ports (in fact, iirc, it found
a port on the MoBo that was not extended to the outside). Again,
no issue, but after staring at the power hungry box for many years
and never doing anything with it, it finally got recycled. Again,
that was many releases ago...so not sure how it applies today.
Current FW box is a old citrix appliance with a six port NIC and two
onboard ports, for eight em(4)s.
Nick.
