[Adam Safier <asafier @
csc .
com>]
| Rummor has it that a Pentium 200 running SOLARI x86 2.5.1 will outperform
| a SPARCStation 5. But a SPARCStation 5 can have 9 ethernet interfaces
| (motherboard + 2 quad cards) while a Pentium usually has a limited number
| of free slots. (I know about specialty motherboards but am trying to
| stick to a "common" platform.)
Why do you think Pentiums are limited this way? There are several companies
that make 4-port PCI Ethernet cards, for instance ZNYX and Cogent.
With 4 PCI slots, you could (at least in theory) have 16 Ethernet ports -
and you still haven't used any ISA slots :-)
Here's the boot-time output from a FreeBSD box with one 4-port ZNYX card,
and one two-port SMC card. It works very well.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug @
nethelp .
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Probing for devices on PCI bus 2:
de0 <Digital DC21040 Ethernet> rev 35 int a irq 11 on pci2:4
de0: DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:00:c0:2b:0e:c0
de0: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de1 <Digital DC21040 Ethernet> rev 35 int a irq 10 on pci2:5
de1: DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:00:c0:4e:10:c0
de1: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
de2 <Digital DC21040 Ethernet> rev 35 int a irq 10 on pci1:4
de2: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1d:20
de2: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de3 <Digital DC21040 Ethernet> rev 35 int a irq 10 on pci1:5
de3: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1d:21
de3: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de4 <Digital DC21040 Ethernet> rev 35 int a irq 11 on pci1:6
de4: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1d:22
de4: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
de5 <Digital DC21040 Ethernet> rev 35 int a irq 11 on pci1:7
de5: ZNYX ZX314 DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3 Ethernet address 00:c0:95:f0:1d:23
de5: enabling 10baseT/UTP port
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