You're exactly correct. I do backups on my home lan here and it takes a goodly time to move 1-2G even at 100Mbps. That said, my question regards a server I'm building for a small business client and the fact that 3Com costs 3x LinkSys ($15 vs $45US) doesn't matter much.
99% of the network gear I buy is LinkSys. The stuff just works and cheap too. When is it worthwhile to put 2 NICs in a server? I hadn't considered that for this (small) server. Bill Day wrote: > My question, to that outside world unless you really have some huge pipe > coming in (cable/dsl dont come close) then a 10Mb card should be ample. > Inside your LAN 100Mbit cards are excellent especailly for head to head > gaming etc. But as soon as you point that card toward the internet, via > your gateway its not going to matter in the slightest, because you > internet cant even begin to use the 10Mbit card. > > With all that said just slap a couple of PCI nics in the server (3Com for > my recommends- you will get what you pay for with cheap nics) > and run them. -- Michael R. Hipp Microsoft Windows XP: Just say no. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
