most PCI slots?

[CanOWorms]

I'm looking for a motherboard that would provide me with the most access to lans/ethernet/network cards (as in 5 PCI, 1 onboard lan, 1 agp). It won't have anything but network cards and a video card unless if it has integrated video. No sound is needed.

Currently I've seen the ECS K7S5A - it has 5 PCI slots, 1 onboard lan, and an AGP slot which would give me 6 network cards. It's cheap, too, at ~$60.

 

[Vegito]

you can get 4 network card in 1, 6 slots = 24 network ports

 

[CanOWorms]

Really? Do you have a link to them? Are there any catches? Does each port have its own IP or does the entire card only have one?

 

[gaidin123]

Dlink has a quad port 10/100 PCI NIC which will work under Windows, Linux, and *BSD. It runs around $160+

Intel has dual port 10/100 Pro NICs which, in windows can be used to aggregate the two ports and get effectively 200Mbit full duplex (200 down/200 up) or provide redundancy, but you'll need switches that support that kind of thing, and you can't use Linux or BSD for that. However, they will show up as 2 separate NICs under linux, bsd (and windows if you want them too). The card runs around $160+ too I believe.

Gaidin

 

[Vegito]

Adaptec NIC Card

Sorry , I couldnt remember them before, but i found it, it's 64bit/32bit card, I'm assuming it'll work in a regular pci, they also have a 64/64 which is only for the 64bit pci..

looks pretty pricy, check the dlink first...