Greg Menke wrote:
> Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
>
>
>>On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, qazmlp1209@rediffmail.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What I would like to know about is the possibility of having 8
>>>different physical IP interfaces, and not 8 virtual IP interfaces with
>>>1 physical interface.
>>
>>I'm not sure one exists, but you could always install two qfes. Why do
>>specificially need physical interfaces?
>>
>
>
> 8 is kind of a stretch but I've used 5 before- on a spacecraft
> simulator, the (in this case) PC w/ Linux. One out to the lab backbone,
> 2 onto for the spacecraft A and B bus (or more correctly network) for
> tcpdump et al, 1 for the space link (w/ PC acting as ip forwarder for A
> & B network) and 1 to hook up to another subnet for other related uses.
> Hardware segregation of the networks was useful because several
> different physical layers and speeds were under test.
>
> An U10 or so with a couple qfe's would have been more convenient than
> loading up the PC's pci bus with a pile of lanboards. Next one of these
> I build, I'll probably try the dual qfe & Solaris route, adding a 6th
> interface to take in port monitoring traffic from the switch. At
> present I have a U1 w/ one qfe doing something similar.
>
> Greg

FWIW the Linux HME (aka Happy Meal) driver also supports Sun QFE cards.
I have a couple of PCs running Linux with dual QFEs installed, no problems.

Sunny