Re: Maximum 16 ports?

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From: Christopher Biggs
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 00:00

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nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> In <62pqai$dun$1@mustang.sdc.com.au> scldad@mustang.sdc.com.au (Stephen Davies) writes:
> 
> >According to the README.stallion file, Linux can support up to four 64-port
> >stallion cards.
> 
> You have the driver source; you could modify it and install more - but
> the practical limit is probably 2. Maybe a dual Pentium can handle more...
> 

I know of one ISP that runs over 200 dialins on one pentium-100.

If you have a board that offloads most work onto it's own processor
it's amazing how many ports you can run...

Chris.

p.s. I am not a salesdroid.


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From: Christopher Biggs <chris@stallion.oz.au>
Subject: Re: Maximum 16 ports?
Date: 1997/10/27
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