Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 06:26:02 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us (Chris Dillon) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will 8 Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100's be a problem? Message-ID: <3595e10d.1180692826@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625222746.12068B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625222746.12068B-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:32:35 -0500 (CDT), in sentex.lists.freebsd.misc you wrote: >Within the next few months, i will be needing to set up a router for our >internal network, tying together 7 networks, with some room to grow. I >plan on buying a rather expensive chassis from Industrial Computer source. You could probably buy 3 plain-jane pentiums for the price of the fancy one you are talking about and not have to worry about cramming so many cards into one box and overloading the PCI bus. If the boxes are going to act as routers and NAT machines, you really dont need that much horse power/RAM/HD space. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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