Re: [Hardware] dual-nic MB for firewall box.
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:10:52PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I'm looking for a motherboard replacement for a firewall machine on a
> small lan. I'd like to go all on-board for simplicity and cost, so
> on-board video, and dual nics (but I'm open to other suggestions).
> Something the bf2.4-xfs net install CD will work with.
I think most of the PC motherboards I've seen with dual NICs on-board
have been expensive boards aimed at the high-end workstation and low-end
server market. When they go on sale (every other week) you can pick up a
cheap PCI card for $5-10, so that might very well be more economical.
Most of these cheap cards are based on Realtek chips (so are most of the
cheap on-board NICs), they're not exactly the best cards around but they
do work.
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Michael Heironimus
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