On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:10 AM, Chris Babcock wrote:
Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
I have been using a net5501-70 with an Intel Pro 1000 GT PCI card,
using m0n0wall (FreeBSD) with good results.
The card fits like a glove. You have to remove the 5501 board,
connect the 1000 GT NIC, and then slide
You might give a try to good Eth card, like Intel one, that do a lot
of work (like checksumming) in hardware, while realtek chips often
wait for the processor to do that. In that case, the Geode certainly
won't be powerfull enough...
Regards,
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:31 PM, John Cox [EMAIL
Hi
Thanks all. I'll give the Intel 1000 GT a go.
JC
On Mar 4, 2008, at 5:31 AM, John Cox wrote:
Hi
I want to use a 5501-70 in its default case as a firewall and
lightweight fileserver (samba) running OpenBSD. I'd like to have
have a
gigabit connection to the main network. Does
nicodache wrote:
You might give a try to good Eth card, like Intel one, that do a lot
of work (like checksumming) in hardware, while realtek chips often
wait for the processor to do that. In that case, the Geode certainly
won't be powerfull enough...
It's 32bit 33mhz pci, it will be faster
