[tulip] Most ethernets record?

A James Lewis james@fsck.co.uk
Tue, 19 Jun 2001 00:14:36 +0100 (BST)


Did this work properly since I tried Znyx 4 port tulip cards and they sort
of work but there's loads of collisions and poor performance.  It works
with SUN QFE cards though so I guess theres a problem in the tulip driver.

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:

> Whats the most ethernets anyone has shoehorned into a single PC?
>
> We managed 20, using 5 quad tulip cards:
>
>             CPU0
>    0:     108511          XT-PIC  timer
>    1:       2168          XT-PIC  keyboard
>    2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>    5:         10          XT-PIC  eth3, eth6, eth9, eth12, eth19
>    8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
>   10:         10          XT-PIC  eth1, eth4, eth11, eth14, eth17
>   11:      10503          XT-PIC  eth0, eth7, eth10, eth13, eth16
>   12:         10          XT-PIC  eth2, eth5, eth8, eth15, eth18
>
> -Dan
>
>
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