[tulip] Re: Most ethernets record?

[Pekka Savola]

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

FWIW, you can only use up to eth15 on 2.2.x kernels with a modified tulip
driver.  This restriction has been removed in 2.4.x.

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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