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

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