On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:18:05 -0500, Michael W. Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > subject sums it up. will be used in small firewall boxes with WAN, LAN, > DMZ, and WLAN (via x-over to AP) connections. older hardware, so > please, no fancy super-duper mega-bandwidth PCI cards that I won't have > slots for. I only have one PCI slot to play with, else I would use > single-port cards. the case is kinda small, too, so I don't think that > full-length cards will fit. Yeah, I know... not asking for much. :) > > what do you recommend?
Not a recommendation: D-Link DFE-580TX For $100CAD, it's a quad ste() card and didn't wow me with performace. I ran into a few issues related to trying to burst 30Mbps over it's PCI bridge and the motherboard's PCI bridge (which I know is pushing a standard PCI implementation). My next suggestion (haven't actually used one but have heard great things about them) for a plain, functional quad NIC would be Soekris Engineering's lan1641, for $89USD http://www.soekris.com/ You may even want to investigate their boards, I've been eyeing the 4801 + 1621 bundle for $309USD, which gets you 5 ethernet interfaces on a bootable board in a case. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
