Multiple 3 three (or more) network NIC cards?


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I have a need where I am running a virtualized OPNsense (pfSense fork) instance and have redundant gateways, thus I need two WAN ports and the man LAN port. It appears that the kernel itself does not recognize more than two network cards, at least lspci only sees 2 when I have 3 installed.

 

Is there any hope of supporting 3 (or more) NICs at any point, or should I be looking at separate hardware?

 

Cheers!

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On a side note, You should be able to see all cards in the system. Just bind them to the vfio, then assign to the vm. There is no limit as far as I know. The 4 port nic card is in a server with another mellanox 10gbe card as well as 2 onboard ports.

 

the 4 port card ids itself as : Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) and I believe it was on eBay as a Dell 4 port intel pro 1000 brand or something similar.

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