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> No, it's not. If you have box that either listens to you, or has a
> clever BIOS, then you can easily fill up every PCI slot with a NIC. But,
> if you pull a $100 gigabyte off the shelf, then you'll start hitting the
> limit at around 4. It's especially fun when the BIOS tries to share a
> NIC's IRQ with your SCSI adapter's, but that's a story that probably
> doesn't need to be told here. :)
To correct my embarrasingly broken english, in the above response:
No, it's not the whole story. If you have a box that either listens to
you, or has a clever BIOS, then you can easily fill up every PCI slot
with a NIC, but if you pull a $100 gigabyte motherboard off the shelf....
Thanks,
Kyle Sparger - Senior System Administrator
Dialtone Internet - Extremely Fast Web Systems
(954) 581-0097 - Voice (954) 581-7629 - Fax
ksparger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dialtoneinternet.net
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