Thanks Graham,
I appreciate the information..
This makes it very easy for me to suggest that a linux box can do the job
instead of a package costing 13,000 pounds (UK)... and get linux into the
company as well, allways a good thing :-)
> Jimmy Z. Stergiou wrote:
>
> > as far as i know there is no such thing. every firewall i have
> > seen/setup was build by using 2 seperate NIC cards. but if someone knows
> > that such i think exists i would very much like to hear about it!
>
> Not so - a number of dual and quad ethernet cards are available.
>
> We run two firewall machines (redundantly) each with an Adaptec Quartet
> 6944A quad ethernet card and a normal 3c905, giving us a total of 5
> ethernet ports per machine. We use these machines to route between 5
> different subnets.
>
> The Adaptec card uses the standard Tulip ethernet driver, and works out
> the box.
>
> Regards,
> Graham
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