On 7/14/10, William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote: > On 7/14/2010 1:16 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> Googling up a really old 2005 newsgroup thread says some people had 24 >> physical NIC (6x 4quad) in a system before and one person vaguely >> remembers a hard 256 limit which would make sense if physical >> interface count is a byte value. > can you give me a link to that thread? My googling skills are > apparently not up to snuff to find that..:) 2001 poster says kernel 2.4 = 16 at least http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.hardware/browse_thread/thread/fbb020bfcc0abd/f25e760b552c9246?pli=1 2005 poster says he's seen 6x quad in a Linux server http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.linux.hardware/2005-01/0431.html