Obviously Shannon is using this for some top secret project at their Black
Mesa facility branch, so you don't have a need to know, Will. ;)

Any Half-Life fans here?

John Hebert

-----Original Message-----
From: will hill
To: [email protected]
Sent: 11/3/03 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Gbit firewall?

On 2003.11.03 09:28 Joey Kelly wrote:
>...
> 
> Have you considered buying gigabit cards (dunno about fiber; I'm
thinking 
> cat5e stuff) and putting up your own box? I'd bet it's cheaper doing
that 
> than buying a "solution"... although if you're needing a 1U case, that
gets 
> expensive.
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Joey Kelly
> < Minister of the Gospel | Computer Networking Consultant >
> http://joeykelly.net

Normal PCI is 32 bits at 33MHz.  That gives you a max theoretical
through put of 1056Mb/s.  I suppose it could be done:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=gigabit+iptables

This one is interesting:
http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter/2001-July/013294.html

Though there are no details, it looks like people have been doing this
since 2001 and I saw one from 2000:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0002.1/0091.html
 
Ah, here is good stuff:
http://slencyclopedia.berlios.de/ethernet.html

What is this thing for anyway? I get by with my crappy old 10Mbs cards,
which are 10 to 20 times faster than my inbound.  

Oh wait, this is Shannon asking.  Shannon, you should be telling me
about this!  

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