Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: usefullness of netbeui

Tigran Aivazian (linker@nightshade.ml.org)
Thu, 21 May 1998 06:31:27 -0400 (EDT)


Better be a SMP mb.. You'll need the IOAPIC for the IRQs for all those
nics..

On 21 May 1998, Benny Amorsen wrote:

> >>>>> "VS" == Vladimir Senkov <hangup@inkom.ru> writes:
>
> 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.
>
>
> Benny
>
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