Problem adding more than 8 network adapters

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2012-Aug-28 11:44:44 +0200, Gustau Pérez i Querol <gperez at entel.upc.edu> wrote:
>   I'm running FreeBSD 9.1 RC1/AMD64 with VirtualBox. The problem I'm 
>facing is that I can't use more than 8 network adapters plugged to the 
>virtual machine.
...
>    I don't know if it's a net@ problem or maybe it is a problem with 
>the emulated PCI-bridge and then stable@ should be contacted. Also, I'm 
>not sure if a real machine would support more than 8 network adapters or 
>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.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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