Re: [TCLUG:11885] Looking for specific hardware

[Adam Maloney <adam@iexposure.com>]

Thought about it...but they're kind of pricey...I figured I could get a
beasty pentium board cheaper than 2 or 3 multi-port NIC's, especially
used.  Maybe when I build one for production.

Nate Carlson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:
> 
> > I'm going to attempt to build a linux-based ethernet router.  I remember
> > seeing some motherboards that had like 6 or 8 PCI slots.  I have no idea
> > where to pick something like this up.  This is starting as a personal
> > project at home, so I'm not real concerned about pps and performance
> > yet.  I just want to play with the linuxrouter project.
> 
> If you're wanting to cram many ethernet cards into a system, why not just
> get a few quad-port ethernet cards?
> 
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