There are some compatability issues between different NIC, hubs & switches. You'd do well to check with you switch manufacturer which NICs they recommend. I'll not name names, since I'd only be repeating info from magazine articles rather than 1st-hand experience.
To offload some of the processing onto the NIC you really need a parallel-processing card, for which 3Com springs immediately to mind. Can be expensive though. Your server uplink should definitely be 100bastT if available, removing one potential bottleneck - so long as the rest of the machine can process all those disk I/O requests fast enough :) On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jim Lisi wrote: > I am puting together a server/router/firewall mashine (yes its all those > together) > I am looking for recomendasions for a good NIC to use. It neads to be a > 10/100baseT > (prob 100 only would be ok, since I'm useing a 10/100 switch). I also > nead 2 10baseT NIC > for two aDSL modems so I'm looking for somthing that won't tax my > procesor to much > (Note: if the 10/100 NIC farly cheap (<50$CAN) I could use that for all > of them) > > TIA, > JIm > > > > -- ================================================== Paul Sims ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SpireLUG - the Chesterfield Linux User Group www.spirelug.org.uk ==================================================
