RTL8139 (10/100) works fine as well and costs less than $20 each. Bernhard Luder
This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Minh Van Le Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2001 03:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Multiple NICS under Linux Has anybody configured 3 or 4 nics to work under Linux ? I'm trying to make a decision between possibly having 3 or 4 10mbit RealTek PCI nics (at $20 each), or purchasing the D-Link 4-Port PCIBUS 10/100 NIC DFE-570TX ($499.70AUD at everythinglinux.com.au). To go on a Celeron 850, 64mb ram, 20gb disk, Redhat 6.2 server. The ADSL will be connected to one of the interfaces. As yet, there is probably no real need for "multiple dedicated bandwidths running at full duplex, with load sharing functions to handle heavy network traffic (D-Link DFE-570TX)", and I can't foresee the system loads on the server hosting web, ftp, irc etc getting very high at this stage. If I can afford to save a couple of hundred dollars, I will. Is there any hardware traps I should look for (eg. onboard/offboard mainboards) that prohibits 3 or 4 regular nics to be used under Linux ? Is there a particular brand/type of mainboard/nic combo I should get ? Also afaik there're problems with the NetGear FA311s with 2.4.x ? and people have suggested use of FA310s instead. Is this true ? What's the difference between OEM and Retail pricing ? It seems to me that OEM labeled hardware are cheaper than Retail labeled hardware. The retail FA310 are $50.80, and OEM are $35.00 as advertised from everythinglinux.com.au. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
