On Monday 16 April 2007 01:26, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Chris C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm in the need to replace my two 100mbit fxp nic's in my firewall with a > > 1000mbit one. The hardware is kinda old. (PIII) > > I'm looking for an inexpensive but not bad (so I think no realtek chips) > > nic. Have looked at sk and bge, but couldn't find any bge nics at my > > local vendors. So... which driver to go? sk? em? > > I really think this has been discussed before so if someone could just > > give me some keywords to search for in the archives I'd be lucky. > > > Get a server board from Asus, Supermicro or Tyan that has dual on-board > gigabit NICs. They will link back to the main bus with separate, PtP PCIe > links to each NIC and you will have a screaming system. I use one NIC on > an Asus P5MT-M connected to a vlan-capable switch for some higher volume > routers and it works great. Each NIC has one 1x PCIe link to the chipset, > which provides plenty of bandwidth for full-duplex gigabit ethernet > communication.
Well... that is totally out of budget. That is a private system, we don't need full line speed. Thanks Chris
