Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > hello misc@ > > I bought a collection of old quad port NICS from Ebay and put them in > a old gateway server, just to see what would happen. > > Everything worked great the only trouble I had was *if* the plug and > play os option in bios was set to yes. the GENERIC kernel will panic > on boot up, however with the plug and play os option in bios set to NO > I get the following dmesg. > > anyone have any ideas on how to use pf to basically emulate a 10/100 > switch (with built in firewall support :) ) > > any ideas are welcome. > > Sam Fourman Jr.
you have me beat there (I've done 20 dc(4) ports, 5xQuads a few years ago). Seven PCI slots? (assuming your fxp is on-board. Took me a while to find #29. :) Wow. Bridge 'em all together, you got yourself an unmanaged switch. Add filtering, you got yourself something that is pretty sophisticated, but before you get too carried away, keep in mind you probably will run out of PCI bus bandwidth long before you saturate more than a few of those NICs... Plus, those things generate a fair amount of heat, make sure air is flowing through there while you are playing with it, hate to have you smoke a bunch of cards you had plans for while having fun... I simplified your dmesg a bit, I was having trouble finding a bunch of the NICs due to odd wrapping problems. fxp0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "Intel 8255x" rev 0x05, i82558: irq 9, dc0 at pci3 dev 4 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x30: irq 9, address dc1 at pci3 dev 5 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x30: irq 9, address dc2 at pci3 dev 6 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x30: irq 10, address dc3 at pci3 dev 7 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x30: irq 11, address dc4 at pci4 dev 4 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x41: irq 9, address dc5 at pci4 dev 5 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x41: irq 10, address dc6 at pci4 dev 6 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x41: irq 11, address dc7 at pci4 dev 7 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x41: irq 9, address dc8 at pci5 dev 4 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x30: irq 10, address dc9 at pci5 dev 5 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x30: irq 11, address dc10 at pci5 dev 6 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x30: irq 9, address dc11 at pci5 dev 7 function 0 "DEC 21142/3" rev 0x30: irq 9, address de0 at pci6 dev 4 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22, Cogent EM440TX de1 at pci6 dev 5 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de2 at pci6 dev 6 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de3 at pci6 dev 7 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de4 at pci7 dev 4 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22, Cogent EM440TX de5 at pci7 dev 5 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de6 at pci7 dev 6 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de7 at pci7 dev 7 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de8 at pci8 dev 4 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22, Cogent EM440TX de9 at pci8 dev 5 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de10 at pci8 dev 6 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de11 at pci8 dev 7 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de12 at pci9 dev 4 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22, Cogent EM440TX de13 at pci9 dev 5 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de14 at pci9 dev 6 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 de15 at pci9 dev 7 function 0 "DEC 21140" rev 0x22 NICk.
