Lee Hetherington wrote:
I use Intel Dual Port 10/100 Server adaptors with great success. I wouldn't use any non-server-class NIC in my firewall e.g. RealTek, Netgear etc. Look at the hardware compatability on the FAQ.
It should be noted that these Dual-Port Intel cards can also be obtained (obscenely cheap, compared with their original list-price <G>) in the form of the Compaq NC Dual cards. The original ftp.cdrom.com FreeBSD ftp-server reportedly ran years with one of these Intel cards almost constantly pumping 100 MBit/s. There's no excuse for using anything from the vr/rl/sis/whatever-departement for production, when you can get the fxp-cards by the dozen on ebay for nearly nothing. Heck, nowadays, even the 32bit em-cards cost less than my very first fxp (which I still have in use somewhere, from 1996)
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