Try http://www.znyx.com/ they have range of NICs and driver source for Linux. They support etherchannel and failover.
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Blars Blarson wrote: > I've been asked to spec a firewall for our network at work. While I find > pleanty of info about using linux as a low-end home firewall, and it doesn't > seem to tax the system hard, I havn't found much about how well it scales > up, and what kind of hardware is needed to run it. > > We have a /24 with around 150 systems on it, and growing. The > incoming feed is 100baseFX full duplex, with a T3 bottleneck upstream. > We have 10 managed 24-port Fast ethernet switches (in four locations) > connected together with 1000baseSX. Our users are in several > different departments, and it would be best to group them. (The > switches can do VLANs.) > > Since I havn't found a pre-packaged solution that fits our needs, > I'm looking into using a linux box as a router. > > 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. An alternate would be 1000baseSX > with multiple mac addresses. (The linksys switches can't vlan by IP, > only be mac. The SMC switches can vlan by IP.) > > Would a gigahertz Pentium 3 be able to handle the load of routing > between several 100baseTX cards without being a bottleneck? > > Does the remaining Novel crap have to stay outside the firewall, since > it would only pass IP? (Or can debian do IPX routing?) > > -- > Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.blars.org/blars.html > "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
