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Re: Linux router (don't laugh) WAS:Re: test

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Wed Oct 28 16:39:05 1998 
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> You have two problems with this and they're both PC hardware-based.
> 1) IRQs are limited, if you subvert the printer and COM IRQs and have a
> single SCSI card for your disk (and the required SVGA display controller),
> you can use IRQ 3,4,5,7,11,12,14,15. This will max you out at 8 NICs on a
> linux box. Each NIC must have its own IRQ.

Some NICs can share IRQs across slots.

-Dan