The "pasive backplane" setup, is just a dummy board, that has nothing
but system buses, ISA, PCI, or combination of the two, with a pci slot
taken up by another PCI board that holds the processor. Nothing
special, just a more industrial/specialized way of using multiple
Interface cards, on a machine that does not need any other overhead. I
am trying to build something for a production ISP environment, so I
guess scalability is a necessity. In such a setup, if it is doable, the
only thing would be finding Multi-modem cards that are hardware-based,
or at least have drivers for Unix/Linux.
--
Respectfully,
M.G.W.
System:
PCChips K7SOM MB
AMD K7 Pro 1800
256MB RAM
40GB HD
10/100 NIC
FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE
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