From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 29 09:02:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF07106568B for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:02:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) Received: from vps.rulingia.com (host-122-100-2-194.octopus.com.au [122.100.2.194]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A54B8FC19 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:02:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.rulingia.com (c220-239-249-137.belrs5.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.249.137]) by vps.rulingia.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q7T92Bhw069017 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:02:11 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@rulingia.com) X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.rulingia.com (localhost.rulingia.com [127.0.0.1]) by server.rulingia.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q7T925RS075226 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:02:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.rulingia.com) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.rulingia.com (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q7T925RD075225; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:02:05 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:02:05 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Gustau =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9rez?= i Querol Message-ID: <20120829090205.GA75022@server.rulingia.com> References: <503C930C.3010405@entel.upc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <503C930C.3010405@entel.upc.edu> X-PGP-Key: http://www.rulingia.com/keys/peter.pgp User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem adding more than 8 network adapters X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:02:33 -0000 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2012-Aug-28 11:44:44 +0200, Gustau P=E9rez i Querol wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 9.1 RC1/AMD64 with VirtualBox. The problem I'm=20 >facing is that I can't use more than 8 network adapters plugged to the=20 >virtual machine. =2E.. > I don't know if it's a net@ problem or maybe it is a problem with=20 >the emulated PCI-bridge and then stable@ should be contacted. Also, I'm=20 >not sure if a real machine would support more than 8 network adapters or= =20 >not. Any hints would be appreciated. I don't think I've ever used more than 6 physical NICs in a host but don't know of any reason for >8 to not work. Can you please post a "pciconf -lv" from FreeBSD and the equivalent "lspci" from Linux. A FreeBSD verbose boot log might also help. --=20 Peter Jeremy --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlA92o0ACgkQ/opHv/APuIcfbQCgiGhicTqf0UycncC+3IKMtemk pVAAoKtnN41K5OGGw0aJ8MQYPvbPzHfa =Icv+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--