We finally got some money to build a router for the center of a 200-300 user network. Upon arrival I found it to be one giant segment with old old switches (sort of - not real ones) and terrible sprawl.
I need to build a router that will handle 7 segments, 4 of which are very heavily used, 3 of which are pretty light. I was contemplating a Quad gigabit card and a 100MB Quad card (to keep the price down). I've got a budget of $3000 US to build this thing. I was thinking the Intel Pro 1000 Quad cards, but thats pretty pricy considering I have to aquire the hardware also. Can someone recommend another good obsd friendly good performer / value for the price Quad Ethernet 1000 card? If I can keep it down, I would use two and not do the 100MB on the slow segments. Also is going PCI-X going to get me much? I was reading some notes in the archives (obsd?) that showed the cards won't need it that much, and another post saying it was going to be slammed by a Quad card. Thanks for any advice Bill
