Yes - it�s a simple box with a couple of interfaces... Not doing anything
more complex than firewalling and routing.

And blowing a couple hundred dollars on something that needs the warranty
voided to do what is needed, isn�t really that useful.

www.pfsense.org <--  damn fine stuff.


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin B�hr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 8:59 a.m.
To: Craig FALCONER
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: horse downtime on Saturday / scrounging motherboard


On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:33:13PM +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote:
> Failing that, I'm searching for a couple of dual port or a quad port 
> ethernet card.  Not one of the dick smith "hub on a card" nics - I 
> need four discreet ethernet interfaces.

it might be cheaper to go with a wrt54g which has a builtin programmable
switch that can be configured to have each port be a discreet interface.
(although only at 10Mbit, because all traffic needs to go through the cpu)

instead of building the �bermachine which can do everything, go for multiple
small machines each for a specific task.

greetings, martin.
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