> > "Victor Foulk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > However, in my experience, the most critical hardware choice is > the network cards themselves. Cheapo network cards will really > hurt performance under load. So toss the cheapo Realtek cards > into the trash and spend a little extra on an Intel or other name > brand card designed for a server. [...]
Similarly to Mr. Foulk, I'm also in the market for a pair of NICs for a small organization's firewall/gateway (in this case using IPFilter). Per your plug for Intel, I'm browsing 3Com and Intel NICs right now on mwave.com. Intel 10/100 w 3DES - $63 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=1562535 3Com 10/100 w 3DES - $92 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=3387169 Why do you suppose that while the 3Com seems very similar to the Intel it costs $30 more? Perhaps because it specs more types of encryption than the Intel NIC? How would this hardware acceleration integrate w FreeBSD? Per some Linux binary compat (as both cards are compat w Linux kernel 2.2+)? Will the hardware encryption on these cards ever be useful in a firewall/gateway application? Sorry for all the questions and thanks for your time, -- Micah Bushouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
