On 3/29/06, max cherry <max dot cherry at xs4all dot nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering what the upper limit on the number of physical ethernet
> ports supported by m0n0wall v1.21 is. I happen to have some quad port NICs
> lying around and if I install all three of them in one box I have 3x4 + 1
> (onboard) = 13 ports (which I admit is a silly amount).

32 is the maximum supported.


> When I boot
> m0n0wall, it doesn't want to recognise any port past the 7th one.
> fxp0-fxp6 are OK but fxp7 fails with a message like this:
>
> fxp7: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x1040-0x107f mem
> 0x40100000-0x401fffff,0x40500000-0x40500fff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci5
> fxp7: Failed to malloc memory
> device_probe_and_attach: fxp7 attach returned 12
> (repeated a couple of times for different memory ranges and irq's)
>

FreeBSD 4.x gets very unhappy when hardware devices share IRQ's or
other resources.  As you've seen, this isn't an issue in FreeBSD 6
anymore.  But I would imagine this is why you're having issues with
the rest of them not being usable.  If you disable unused devices in
your BIOS, you may be able to get a few more of them to work. 
Otherwise you're pretty much stuck, unless you can find something
pertinent hitting Google Groups with the above failed message.

-Chris