On Wednesday 05 February 2003 03:58 am, Jaime Nebrera Herrera wrote: > This system has 3 Realtek ethernet interfaces. One will go to the WAN > link (20MB) and the other two I dont know yet. The servers wont provide > access from the Internet, so dont know if they will need a DMZ. <snip> > > With two cards, 2 Lans? > > The board has 3 ethernets, but dont know the exact configuration yet > (with DMZ or two internal). I guess that placing both as internal will > force the system to manage a 100MB stream and this will be surelly blow in > peaces. So or DMZ or just leave the third interface unused.
I'd be wary of the realtek chipsets in an atmosphere like this, I think you'd be better off with a server-class NIC that does the share of processing on-board. I could be wrong, the rtl8139 chips aren't terrible like other realtek chips, but I don't know how much on-board processing they do. > > A Via 533 is not going to service 100MBS total bandwith. > > I saw that. That is why the system is just in the "border" to manage only > 20MB. All internal traffic will be managed by dedicated equipment from > Cisco. You really want to look at the PCI bus speed. If the box will choke, that will likely be your point of failure. > We have other options. We could use the same system but with 2x Intel > Ethernet 10/100 and 1x Intel 10/100/1000, we could use one with 512 MB RAM > or we could update the CPU to a VIA C3 800. I just one to know if the other > box will be enough. The Intel are generally better chipsets for their NIC's and do a lot of onboard processing. See above. -- ~Lynn Avants Linux Embedded Firewall Project developer http://leaf.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
