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Re: suggestions on support +2 network interfaces


Tim Michals wrote:
All,

I'm looking into suggestions for support +2 network devices, looking at the
network stack support it looks like there is only support for 2 devices?
There's no intrinsic reason not to do more. In fact the stuff in network_support.c is only there as a sort of system default. You could bring the interface up yourself using the same ioctl's etc.

But to be honest, it's easier just to add the support for more devices in the code by the magic of copy-n-paste.

Although I do vaguely recall something about eth2 being considered special in some way - something to do with its use for PCMCIA/CF. If so that "special"ness should be broken as it obviously isn't scalable nor flexible.

Jifl
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