From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 24 04:11:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A60C516A4CE; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 04:11:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4384543D2D; Sat, 24 Jul 2004 04:11:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:13:10 -0500 Message-ID: <4101E16B.1070000@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:11:23 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hakim Z. Singhji" References: <4101DCAF.3050804@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <4101DCAF.3050804@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jul 2004 04:13:10.0687 (UTC) FILETIME=[87FBA2F0:01C47134] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Gateway??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 04:11:26 -0000 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