Re: high-end firewall

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn@axis.com>]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Blars Blarson wrote:

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> Are there any quad fast ethernet cards supported by debian/potato?
> (I've found them for solaris and microsoft.) 6-8 interfaces is
> difficult without multi-port cards.

I use D-Link DFE-570TX quad cards.

  http://www.dlink.com/products/adapters/dfe570tx/

Much cheaper than all the rest. Works great. tulip driver.

02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41)
	Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 1112
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
	I/O ports at d000 [size=128]
	Memory at dc003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
	Expansion ROM at d8000000 [disabled] [size=256K]

3 quad cards in one box. No problems.

> Would a gigahertz Pentium 3 be able to handle the load of routing
> between several 100baseTX cards without being a bottleneck?

Why not an AMD 1.0+ GHz? Works great, and it's cheaper :)


Good luck,
Cristian