Re: NIC's

Stephen Kitchener (root@g6dzj.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 2 Aug 1998 14:11:06 +0000 (GMT)


On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Graham Leggett wrote:

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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> tonight...

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