Re: Multiport Ethernet Cards(Plenty of em...)

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:10:14 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, kiran keshava wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I heard a few days back that someone is Installing Many many NICs on a
> linux machine. I am also working on benchmarking a Linux Box as a router
> and am planing on installing six 4-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet cards (total
> 24 ports) on it. I was wondering which card would be a good pick,
> presently I'm thinkin of using Matrox NS-FNIC/4 multiport 10/100Mbps
> ethernet cards. This card is rather new and seems to have a problem with
> the drivers. Is there any other 4-port ethernet card that anyone else has
> used and would recommend for usage at 100Mbps ???

I have had good luck so far with the adaptec starfire boards but the
driver is not ported to 2.3 yet so that may be a problem.

The older adaptec tulip boards also work fine.

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