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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:07:02 -0700
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On 10/14/2010 05:57 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> I've always been sceptical of this.  When physical systems have a large 
> number of NICs, it's via multiple functions, not a bunch of PCI bridges.
> 

Actually a lot of multiport PCI cards are in fact single or dual NICs
behind PCI bridges.

	-hpa