[Klug-general] 4 port network card

[Mark Terry]

On Thursday 01 Jun 2006 01:45, klug at allenjb.me.uk wrote:
> I believe the technical theoretical maximum is 255 per USB controller. =P
>
> MacGyveR wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 13:30, Allen Brooker wrote:
> >> If you've got enough spare PCI slots, surely you could just throw in 2-4
> >> standard NICs?
> >>
> >> Allen
> >>
> >> Dan Attwood wrote:
> >>> Does anyone konw where I can get a fourport or two port network card
> >>> from. I'm trying to put together a firewall and could do without a huge
> >>> rack of network cards.
> >>>
> >>> Dan
> >>
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> > Dan,
> > If you want to be really mental you could connect up to about 100 usb
> > nics in your machine :-)
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Allen,
	when usb first came out someone tried reaching the 255 limit, but only just 
got above 100 before their machine could not handle it. well the test was one 
in win98 or something like that :-)

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