On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Blars Blarson wrote: [snip]
> Are there any quad fast ethernet cards supported by debian/potato? > (I've found them for solaris and microsoft.) 6-8 interfaces is > difficult without multi-port cards. I use D-Link DFE-570TX quad cards. http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfe570tx/ Much cheaper than all the rest. Works great. tulip driver. 02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41) Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 1112 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12 I/O ports at d000 [size=128] Memory at dc003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Expansion ROM at d8000000 [disabled] [size=256K] 3 quad cards in one box. No problems. > Would a gigahertz Pentium 3 be able to handle the load of routing > between several 100baseTX cards without being a bottleneck? Why not an AMD 1.0+ GHz? Works great, and it's cheaper :) Good luck, Cristian
