I'm using realtek nics in our ipcop firewall with QoS right now and it is doing fine. This motherboard was actually meant to be a router, so I don't think they would have chosen an unuseable chipset.
On 5/2/06, Christoph Hanle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Realtek 8169 for the 5 100 Mbit ports > Realtek 8139 for the 1 Gigabit port Imho are these chipsets a joke and not usable in a firewall or router. You will get a lot of trouble with this scrap. I had similar boxes running with pfSense and m0n0wall and trouble with the stability and performance of some connections. After replacing the boxes with "smaller" PCs with real NICs the problems are vanished. bye Christoph
