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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: | Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: | |> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> Hi Everyone, |> |> I am building a gateway/router from a i386 300Mhz, 32MB RAM, 5GB hda and |> ~ I need to buy the NIC cards. I wanted to have three interface |> connection points to my gateway/router. Does anyone have any suggestions |> on the type of NIC I should use? I would appreciate some help. |> |> In addition, I'm new to BSD. I hail from the Redhat world, but I |> anticipate FreeBSD to be a great addition to my network. |> |> HZS | | | | 10/100? There are less Gigabit types that are supported, yet, | but then the reason for that should be pretty obvious. | | Anyway, you generally can't go wrong with 3Com. That said, | I've never had trouble with 3Com, SiS, DEC/Intel, even RealTek | and the onboard VIA/Rhine stuff (drivers, respectively: xl, sis, dc, | rl, vr). | | That covers quite a few chipsets. There are plenty more. The | only problem I have answering your post is that I don't know what's | *not* supported. Also, some users have reported issues with "watchdog | timeout" errors using 5.X FBSD and one of the drivers mentioned above. | You could probably spot which one on Google ... | | HTH, | | Kevin Kinsey | _______________________________________________ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies | To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" |
Well Kevin,
Do you know where I can get a 3COM or Intel card for a good price??? I tried pricewatch.com however they all seem to be around the same between 29 - 35 dollars. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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