Never done the quad in my maxchines. I havent heard anyone getting fired over it either though.
A quick check on dells web indicates you have two pci-e slots in those r200s, why not get two dual nics. On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Martmn Coco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks! > > Have you tried the quad nics on those Dells? We do have a couple of R200s, > 860s and 850s running with 2 dual port cards no problem, but we have never > tried the quad ports. > > Torsten Frost escribis: >> >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Martmn Coco >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi misc, >>> >>> I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that should >>> have more than four NICs. >>> >>> Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC >>> limitation. >>> We could tell Dell to install a quad port NIC (in addition to the >>> two-port >>> onboard card), but I haven't read good things about the way they work. >>> >>> I've also looked into soekris, but they don't seem to have enough CPU for >>> what we want (this is pure speculation) as we also have intense IPSec >>> traffic on some of these firewalls (I've seen that some of them could >>> have >>> encryption boards added to increase performance, but I don't know if it >>> works for any kind of protocol, or at what rate). >>> >>> In any case, what I would like to have is firewalls with multiple NICs >>> (at >>> least 6 NICs) *and* sufficient CPU to let IPSec work alright at least at >>> ~50Mbps (internal backbone firewalls). The multiple NICs are to use >>> trunk, >>> pfsync, real network interfaces, etc. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Martmn. >>> >>> >> >> >> We run a pair of dell 1950s and have been generally happy with them. >> >> We run one dual port intel card and the two build in ports, no >> problem pushing about >> 400mbit. The intel cards have worked ok for us for years now in >> various versions. >> >> You can configure the box with two dual nics or two quad nics on the dell >> web.
