From owner-freebsd-net Mon May 31 13:10:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from lanfear.nidlink.com (lanfear.nidlink.com [216.18.128.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC17915537 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 13:10:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sworkman@nidlink.com) Received: from enaila.nidlink.com (root@enaila.nidlink.com [216.18.128.8]) by lanfear.nidlink.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA16193 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 13:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hal.nidlink.com (tnt132-142.nidlink.com [216.18.132.142]) by enaila.nidlink.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA06565 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 13:10:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hal.nidlink.com (localhost.nidlink.com [127.0.0.1]) by hal.nidlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA18109 for ; Mon, 31 May 1999 13:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sworkman@nidlink.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 13:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: sworkman@nidlink.com From: Shawn Workman To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Dlink DFE-530TX Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am building another firewall/NATD box from spare parts. So far I have an AMD K6 233 MMX with 32 MB of Ram, 18 GB of disk space, FreeBSD 3.2 Stable and a Graphics Blaster Extreme 4 BM PCI Graphics card. I am now down to actually having to buy some parts :(, the network cards. I understand the 'You get what you pay for' theory but this box is not going to be on some corporate network just my network at home. The cards I am looking at are the D-Link DFE-530 TX cards. I plan on buying 2 of them for this particulay box. Does anyone know of any issues when using these cards? The last IPFW/NATD box I built used the Intel Pro 100 cards (fxp0), and they work very well, but I am not willing to lay out that kind of cash for cards in this box that will be mostly used for NATD on my private network. I noticed on the Hardware list from the FreeBSD site that the D-Link 530 cards are supported and there is no mention about them being un-reliable so I am thinking that there is no problem with these cards but I wanted to get some opinions from the list about these cards.. Thanks in advance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message