Re: [Bridge] bridge with gigabit nework

[Advanced Hosting UNIX Admin Daniel Fairchild]

On Thursday 18 July 2002 16:08, you wrote:
> Advanced Hosting UNIX Admin Daniel Fairchild wrote:
> > I did not do a bridge but just a gateway fire wall with dual gigabit
> > cards and dual xeon 1.7 Ghz machine.
> >
> > the cards we used were the 3com 3C985B-SX fiber gigabit cards and we have
> > pushed 160Mb/s across the firewall and it runs great. The 3com drivers
> > are in the kernel. I looked into using the Intel gigabit cards they have
> > no kernel drivers the only driver that was available at the time was one
> > provided by Intel and it would only compile as a module so we opted to
> > use the 3com cards.  we needed a tight kernel with every thing compiled
> > in for speed. :)
>
> How much slower it is with the driver as module?

Did not even test it yet, I will be though needed it kind of in a crunch due 
to codered and all. 

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