Subject: Re: NIC advice
To: Michael D. Spence <spence@panix.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/21/2006 18:11:39
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.). 
>  
> I'm guessing 3c905's are no longer available at the local Microcenter
> Warehouse.  What
> should I look for along this line?

The 3c905C-TX-M are still manufactured and available. They're nice, especially
as they have checsum offloads, which can helps in such config.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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