software limits on netwrok interfaces

I'm planning a server system and I'm expecting to use up to 5 physical
network interfaces. I just wanted to double check that this will work and I
could not find any related info in the docs. Thanks....

-Don

Lots of people do it, but it is not recommended. What are these NICs
going to do? How will your software know which NIC to use? How will you
handle name resolution?

DG@FMI wrote:
> I'm planning a server system and I'm expecting to use up to 5 physical
> network interfaces. I just wanted to double check that this will work
> and I could not find any related info in the docs. Thanks....
>
> -Don

Hi, thanks for the response. The server will be connected to a bunch of
devices on small static ip networks in a control system. There will be no
name resolution etc. We are planning to just use fixed IP addresses and
assign a class C to each interface in the routing table.

"Bill Grant" wrote:

> Lots of people do it, but it is not recommended. What are these NICs
> going to do? How will your software know which NIC to use? How will you
> handle name resolution?
>
> DG@FMI wrote:
> > I'm planning a server system and I'm expecting to use up to 5 physical
> > network interfaces. I just wanted to double check that this will work
> > and I could not find any related info in the docs. Thanks....
> >
> > -Don
>
>
>

Can't think of any problems in a setup like that.

DG@FMI wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the response. The server will be connected to a bunch
> of devices on small static ip networks in a control system. There
> will be no name resolution etc. We are planning to just use fixed IP
> addresses and assign a class C to each interface in the routing table.
>
> "Bill Grant" wrote:
>
>> Lots of people do it, but it is not recommended. What are these
>> NICs going to do? How will your software know which NIC to use? How
>> will you handle name resolution?
>>
>> DG@FMI wrote:
>>> I'm planning a server system and I'm expecting to use up to 5
>>> physical network interfaces. I just wanted to double check that
>>> this will work and I could not find any related info in the docs.
>>> Thanks....
>>>
>>> -Don