multiple port network cards

[Darin Perusich]

i've used the quad ethernet cards in sun servers. they are cool little
beasts, depending on the OS and the switchs you're using you can trunk
or glomb the ports together to make them 1 or 2 vitrual interfaces, 2 or
4 times the throughput. there's a company, antares who makes quad
gigabit cards for solaris systems.

Richard Hubbard wrote:
> 
> Has anyone out there seen/worked with 4+ port network cards?  I am
> endeavoring to put together a router for my office, and I don't particularly
> want to spend $1400 for a 4 port module for a cisco box.
> 
> I think this crowd might know what I have in mind.
> 
> at www.netseller.com, there are some 'off lease' boxes at pretty reasonable
> prices.  The problem is that those things will only have 1-3 slots for pci
> cards. The solution should be a multiport network card.
> 
> Does such a beast exist?  What brand/model?  Are they supported in any linux
> distrubution? Are they cheap? (actually, i can figure the last part out.)
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Richard Hubbard
> Training Manager, New Horizons Buffalo
> MCT, MCSE, MCDBA, MCSD,CLP, CLI, A+, Net+
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> 
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com