Didn't say that. I'm just saying that realtek hardware is working well running QoS with our existing firewall distro, so I know that it is physically possible to do so. I'm not trying to philosophise about the goals of the various firewall distros that are out there, nor about the intelligence level of ipcop users :-)
On 5/2/06, Gary Buckmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're assuming that IPCop's primary motivation is for supporting only the highest quality hardware, when in fact they have no such goals. They are supporting the most common hardware to make a very simple firewall package that even a mouthbreathing retard can figure out. Don't assume that simply because they have support for Realtek hardware (which is notoriously crappy) that this must make the hardware high quality. -Gary Carl Youngblood wrote: > 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
