Hi,
Firstly is this box to be used only as a firewall, or will it be doing other duties.
If It's only going to be you connection to cable and ip masq etc I would even bother
spending big bucks on new PIII/Athlon boards, PCI cards, 128 MB ram.
Here's me fire wall config:
Intel 486 DX 2 66, (over powered btw)
32 MB (once again overkill)
2 Intel Ether Express isa Cards
1 Floppy Router, there are many option in this area eg: LRP, FloppFW, FreeSco etc etc.
On to the main question, I've been using DEC 21140 (I think that's the number) W/O any
problems at all, These cards are quite affordable (around $50.00 for PCI) and work
really well. In case your interested I managed to ftp binary files across two of these
cards on a 100 Mb Hub at 4.5 MBytes/sec not bad considering the SCSI disks were UW and
rated at 40 Mbits/Sec.
Original Message:
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From: Nicholas Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:15:25 -0800 (PST)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation
Hi all,
</de-lurk>
I'm putting together a new Linux firewall box for bigpond cable and
am having fun trying to decide between two motherboards.
Doing the relevant googling and archive searches, I have ended up
with two choices:
1. An Asus board with an onboard Realtek 8139.
2. An Aopen board with an onboard Intel 82559.
The case I'm going to use requires a half-height NIC which will be
another 8139.
I noted in my research that the Realtek is not rated very highly
for
performance but appears well-supported.
The Intel 82559 is supposed to be very good for both speed and
support but a few notes in linux-kernel August last year suggested
problems with 2.4pre recognising onboard variants. There didn't
seem to be any followup after that.
For background - the addon card would be plugged into the cable
modem, the onboard into a 100 switch.
I know that the Aopen board would be the better buy but:
1. An additional $100+
2. The Asus board has a nice connector for a front monitoring
panel.
Apologies for the long-winded post - I guess my question boils down
to:
1. Is anyone having problems with 1 or 2 8139 cards in the same
machine?
2. The Intel seems to be a very popular choice - would it be worth
investing in (I know worth is relative but the difference is 128meg
of ram <g>).
Thanks for your help.
</re-lurk>
Nicholas
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