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

Thu Oct 29 04:44:45 UTC 1998

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Can't 3Com Etherlink NICs operate on IO addresses only?

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From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Dan Hollis
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 10:15 AM
To: Roeland M.J. Meyer
Cc: Phil Howard; Neil J. McRae; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Linux router (don't laugh) WAS:Re: test

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

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