Quoth Ron Farrer, > I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was > best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is > there any gotchas for doing one over the other?
I find that's it's easier to use two different cards (not just different brands, but different chipsets) because you can easily dictate which one will be eth0 and eth1 in /etc/modules.conf. Using the same brands will certainly work, but you'll probably end up juggling them around to work out which one is which. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller :: Department of Criminology :: University of Melbourne The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; -- Julius Caesar
