> The fastest cards I've been using for NetBSd so far is the WD8013 cards,
> but since these are ISA cards I was wondering if PCI cards won't handle
> the bandwidth better. I remember reading somewhere some data on ethernet
> cards and bus bandwidth and ISA used 46% per card and EISA 15% - since
> EISA ethernet is not supported PCI comes to mind.

Uh...  I am using an EISA ethernet card in my machine without any problems.
It is the 3COM 579, EtherLink III.

> Another factor is going to be processor speed, I know the faster the
> better - but its going to hit my budget limit before any other limits!
> So the question: Will a DX2/66 be able to cope? Considering that this
> machine will ONLY be doing this one task - for now ;-)

It should be more than enough if it does little or nothing else.  And a
firewall machine should not do anything but being a firewall.

Thorsten
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