<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">I'm guessing that you're right that it might not be a problem with the newer kernels. I think I heard the rumor back in late 2.2/early 2.4 times.<br><div> </div><span style="font-family:comic sans ms;">Richard Hubbard </span><br>ATTO Technology Inc<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Cyber Source <peter@thecybersource.com><br>To: nflug@nflug.org<br>Sent: Wednesday, July 9, 2008 8:26:32 AM<br>Subject: Re: [nflug] Routers switches and the urge to get very vocal with a Dell tech support rep<br><br>For my network firewall here we've been using shorewall for years (now <br>with portknocking!) and have 2 nics,
1 for external, 1 for internal. <br>Although the external/internal thing doesnt matter, to have assign <br>multiple IP's to 1 nic, they take the form of eth0:0, eth0:1 and on and <br>on. I have never heard of this 4 nic limit as you mentioned, I would <br>doubt it, at least with modern kernels.<br><br>Richard Hubbard wrote:<br>> A number of months ago, I purchased a Dell 6224, layer 3 switch, with <br>> the idea of using it to break my 150+ machine network into subnets, <br>> primarily so that some tech in a lab wouldn't shut down the network <br>> with a broadcast storm.<br>><br>> According to Dell, this is what I should be able to do.<br>><br>> According to me, every set of instructions we got to do a simple <br>> "break your network into 8 IP subnets" has not worked.<br>><br>> Which brings up 3 possible solutions<br>> 1. Beat a Dell rep with a stick until he gets an engineer who is not <br>> doing a visual
inspection of his own lower intestine.<br>> 2. Bite the bullet, and get recommendations for something that is <br>> advertised as a "real router". Gigabit ethernet is a requirement.<br>> 3. Build a cheap box and make a router using linux.<br>><br>> Any advice with the above would be helpful. Specifically regarding 2 <br>> (What can I get that is inexpensive, does Gigabit ethernet, and <br>> doesn't necessarily include a bunch of crap I don't want, like ISDN, <br>> firewalls, proxys, etc), or 3 (Inexpensive motherboards/rack <br>> mounts/PCIe Network cards, etc).<br>> One thing I am curious about, I seem to remember from long long ago, <br>> that linux only supported 4 network cards. Is this the case for real, <br>> or just a bad memory?<br>><br>> Thanks!<br>> <br>> <span style="font-family:comic sans ms;">Richard Hubbard </span><br>> ATTO Technology Inc<br>><br>><br>>
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