[20841] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux router (don't laugh) WAS:Re: test
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Wed Oct 28 16:49:44 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:14:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
cc: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>, "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810281932.LAA02991@condor.lvrmr.mhsc.com>
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
