Re: [Debian] Multiport Ethernet boards?
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote:
:
: Howdy,
:
: I believe somebody posted a message about this some time ago
: but I couldn't find it in the archives (actualy I don't know
: what to look for :-). I want to build a router using a PC
: running Linux. Unfortunately there aren't enough PCI slots to
: accomodate all networkadapters. Are there any multiport
: ethernet adapters around that are supported by Linux?
Yes. SMC makes a nice one that's based on the tulip chipset. There's a
dual model, and I think a quad. I don't have any URLs but I did search
Altavista once with exactly your question and came up with a few pages
talking about multiport NICs supported in Linux.
: Considering I want to build a router with 9 network interfaces
: (preferably 100Base-Tx but I guess that's too much to ask for :-),
: what kind of PC should I use (it will only do routing and maybe
: DNS). Will a Pentium 233MMX do the trick or should I go for
: a PIII 550. Will 64MB do or should I use 128MB, will the amount
: of memory have any impact at all on the performance. I figure
: the PCI bus will probably be the bottleneck here.
Well, I would think that the Pentium would handle it - Bay routers (for
example) are generally powered by 68040 Motorola chips ...
RAM is good :)
: Isn't there a Linux-router or something like that around?
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
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