Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 10:32:57 -0500 From: Micah Bushouse <bushous2@msu.edu> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Gateway Message-ID: <1104679977.274.25.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050102093214.10d4b2e1.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <000001c4f09b$f67534d0$68bbbbc0@kewdaeahnhd04i> <20050102093214.10d4b2e1.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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> > "Victor Foulk" <VFoulk@KEWD.com> wrote: > [...] > "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com> wrote: [...] > However, in my experience, the most critical hardware choice is > the network cards themselves. Cheapo network cards will really > hurt performance under load. So toss the cheapo Realtek cards > into the trash and spend a little extra on an Intel or other name > brand card designed for a server. [...] Similarly to Mr. Foulk, I'm also in the market for a pair of NICs for a small organization's firewall/gateway (in this case using IPFilter). Per your plug for Intel, I'm browsing 3Com and Intel NICs right now on mwave.com. Intel 10/100 w 3DES - $63 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=1562535 3Com 10/100 w 3DES - $92 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=3387169 Why do you suppose that while the 3Com seems very similar to the Intel it costs $30 more? Perhaps because it specs more types of encryption than the Intel NIC? How would this hardware acceleration integrate w FreeBSD? Per some Linux binary compat (as both cards are compat w Linux kernel 2.2+)? Will the hardware encryption on these cards ever be useful in a firewall/gateway application? Sorry for all the questions and thanks for your time, -- Micah Bushouse <bushous2@msu.edu>
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