Subject: Re: NIC advice
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/20/2006 14:09:34
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:48:58AM -0700, Ben Collver wrote:
> On a lark, how about the idea of putting in a PCI 2-port USB card and
> using USB 100Mb NICs? I did something like this on a home firewall,
> but never tested it with "heavy lifting".
USB itself is actually a CPU hog itself. I wouldn't recommend using
USB NICs an old slow PC.
Kind regards
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Matthias Scheler http://zhadum.org.uk/