From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 09:37:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F02DE1065670 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:37:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0B18FC14 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF3DE721C; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:37:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from core.draftnet (client-86-29-107-54.glfd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.29.107.54]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:37:09 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:36:50 +0000 From: Bruce Cran To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Message-ID: <20101124093650.2461ac92@core.draftnet> In-Reply-To: <4cecda5d.ltS7OEPGWsgw4VsS%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20101124014312.GB12000@thought.org> <4cecda5d.ltS7OEPGWsgw4VsS%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kline@thought.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: foo; no such thing as a "dual-nic" atom firewall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:37:12 -0000 On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:26:53 -0800 perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Dunno about having them on-board, but anything with a Poulsbo SCH > should have two PCIe channels, each of which could be used for a > NIC. You also get network cards with multiple ports which would work. e.g. http://reviews.cnet.com/adapters-nics/d-link-dfe-570tx/1707-3380_7-785663.html -- Bruce Cran