On Mon, Jul 14 2008 at 28:15, Mart?n Coco wrote: > Thanks! > > Have you tried the quad nics on those Dells? We do have a couple of R200s, > 860s and 850s running with 2 dual port cards no problem, but we have never > tried the quad ports. Hello,
I do have around 20 Dell 860 and R200 with 2 cards Intel Quad ports. That is a total of 10 interfaces on those cheap Dell. You'll never hit any problem if you use only one Quad port. Be careful with 2 cards on 860. You'll have to order "Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad Port" and *NOT* the "Low profile" one. For the moment, no issues with them. We hadn't tested performance. These Dell protect small Internet link so we didn't bother check performance for links below 10Mb. Claer > Torsten Frost escribis: >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Martmn Coco >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi misc, >>> >>> I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that should >>> have more than four NICs. >>> >>> Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC >>> limitation. >>> We could tell Dell to install a quad port NIC (in addition to the >>> two-port >>> onboard card), but I haven't read good things about the way they work. >>> >>> I've also looked into soekris, but they don't seem to have enough CPU for >>> what we want (this is pure speculation) as we also have intense IPSec >>> traffic on some of these firewalls (I've seen that some of them could >>> have >>> encryption boards added to increase performance, but I don't know if it >>> works for any kind of protocol, or at what rate). >>> >>> In any case, what I would like to have is firewalls with multiple NICs >>> (at >>> least 6 NICs) *and* sufficient CPU to let IPSec work alright at least at >>> ~50Mbps (internal backbone firewalls). The multiple NICs are to use >>> trunk, >>> pfsync, real network interfaces, etc. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Martmn. >>> >>> >> We run a pair of dell 1950s and have been generally happy with them. >> We run one dual port intel card and the two build in ports, no >> problem pushing about >> 400mbit. The intel cards have worked ok for us for years now in >> various versions. >> You can configure the box with two dual nics or two quad nics on the dell >> web.
