On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:53:03AM -0400, Michael D. Spence wrote:
> I need to add another NIC to my NetBSD 1.6-based firewall.  I currently have
> three:
>  
> - ex0, 3Com 3c905 running at 100Mb,
> - tlp0, ADMtek AN985 also at 100Mb, and 
> - ep0, 3Com 3c509, which runs at 10 Mb.
>  
> I need to add another 100Mb NIC.  This is an old, slow (166 Mhz) computer,
> so I'd want the NIC to do the heavy lifting (DMA transfers, etc.). 

Any decent Gigabit network card will do that e.g. an Intel PRO 1000MT.
They will although provide hardware offload features like header checksums
or TCP segment offload.

If you don't want to spend that much money try to buy a used
SMC Etherpower II on eBay. They are usually cheap because most
buyers don't know the difference between those and RealTek *cough* NICS.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/