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/ -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)