Get a server board from Asus, Supermicro or Tyan that has dual on-board gigabit NICs. They will link back to the main bus with separate, PtP PCIe links to each NIC and you will have a screaming system. I use one NIC on an Asus P5MT-M connected to a vlan-capable switch for some higher volume routers and it works great. Each NIC has one 1x PCIe link to the chipset, which provides plenty of bandwidth for full-duplex gigabit ethernet communication.
Chris C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the need to replace my two 100mbit fxp nic's in my firewall with a > 1000mbit one. The hardware is kinda old. (PIII) > I'm looking for an inexpensive but not bad (so I think no realtek chips) nic. > Have looked at sk and bge, but couldn't find any bge nics at my local > vendors. > So... which driver to go? sk? em? > I really think this has been discussed before so if someone could just give > me > some keywords to search for in the archives I'd be lucky. > > Thanks > Chris -- "It's beneficial to your health to try and believe a few impossible things before breakfast." -- Lewis Carroll
