Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 May 1998 14:30:16 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: usefullness of netbeui |
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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Vladimir Senkov wrote: > >VS> I just told him "I will install an ethernet switch, but it ain't > >VS> gonna help when someone nukes the loose-OS :-), and I cannot plug > >VS> 40 ethernet cards into my Linux :-)" and he answered "DO > >VS> SOMETHING! NOW!!!" Oh, I changed the boss at that time :-)))) > > > >Hmm, let's see, you can get servers with 8 PCI slots, and you can get > >4 port ethernet cards, that'll be 32... Not 40, but close. I wonder > >how linux would react to that. > > > Cool! Can you point me to the manufactures of such 4-port ethernet cards?
E.g. www.znyx.com.
They even have boards with an i960 that makes the board looks like one fault tolerant 400 Mbps link. I saw them at last CeBIT. I don't know whether they support Linux.
If they weren't that expensive (2000 USD?), it would be great for making hypercube Beowulf machines (each node a 600 MHx AXP and 4 Znyx boards)...
It's not that difficult to make one PCI board with 4 Ethernet ports. All you need is a PCI bridge (DEC 21152?) and 4 PCI Ethernet chips (DEC 21143).
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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