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. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
