On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:37:52PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-21 09:21]: > > Alternately, if you really do need router throughput at or above 1000Mbps, > > you might want to consider a purpose-built gigabit router from Cisco :) > > why would you want to deal with such crap? geez. Besides the fact it would EASILY cost way more than his budget allows.
> > > 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. > > sk(4), way better than em and cheaper too. I dunno wether there are > 4ports tho. I have only seen dual port cards, wish they would make a quad card though. > as somebody else noticed already, using a VLAN-capable switch and > hanging the OpenBSD machine off a tagged port might make sense.
