On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 10:10 +0000, Chris Evans wrote: > In relation to debugging my DNS lookup woes (see other posts!) I'm > going to buy a spare PCI ethernet card. Since my firewall machine is > tiny and quiet, it only has one PCI slot so I'd like to get a > multiport, ideally four port, card. Some time back people recommended > the Intel Pro multiport cards but they were out of my price range > except on Ebay (where I can now only see one two port card). I also > had a recommendation for Soekris who have 2 and 4 port cards at prices > I can pay and say they have linux support (see end of post for spec). > > Does anyone have experience of these cards with Woody or have another > recommendation?
While I don't have any experience with the NICs from Soekris, I do use their net4801 boxes extensively at work. I've gotten them working with both Debian and FreeBSD flawlessly. As the net4801 has 3 ethernet ports I'd imagine they're based on either a scaled up lan1621 or a scaled down lan1641. This is, of course, pure speculation but given that Soekris generally makes very Linux-friendly hardware I'd imagine that their NICs would be no exception. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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