I haven't worked on a PIX since last year, but the 520 I had used 3Com 3c905b cards. Of course, the rest was as yours with an Intel board, PII processor, standard RAM, etc. I think one could easily build one of these boxes provided you had the PIX OS handy. Of course, licensing would become an issue by doing this... :-)
3Com cards have the model number on them. You can identify an Intel card by the stamping on the chipset.
Rik
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 3:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Adding HW to PIX
Unofficially, the PIX uses Intel Etherexpress PRO/100 NIC's, which I would
suspect that the PIX's IOS would only have drivers for this card. To be
completely sure, the only sure fire solution would be to take the NIC out of
the PIX, put it into a Windows 2000 machine, and see what it autodetects the
NIC as (Win98 would probably work, but the autodetection on 2000 is much
better IMHO). It is doubtful a 3com NIC would work. Remember, the PIX
(well, the 520 anyways) is just an Intel AL440LX motherboard with a Pentium
II processor. (Or a VS440FX motherboard with a Pentium Pro processor). HTH.
Craig Johnson, CCNP, CCDP
