=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 February 2003 22:59, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > NICs: I've seen several mentions of the Intel eepro NICs. Are they best? I still believe that the DEC ones are the best, you still can get new 100mb= it=20 nic with tulip chips on port, in our tests they are the best, we've about=20 1000 of them running here.=20 ps: intel does now produce that chips, but I don't know which intel nic mod= els=20 do contain that chip, as we buy cheap cards with that chip on it. =20 our dealer in munich, justs calls it CompuShack FASTLine PCI 10/100Mbit/s DEC Chip 32 euro =20 under linux just load the tuplic.o module. > Processor: speeds probably don't matter too much (my Cisco 3640 router > with 4 T1s has a 100Mhz processor, though it's RISC and has optimized > IOS) but faster processors have faster FSB as well > Memory: 128 MB probably enough to deal with 100Mb? not the amount of ram that is important, it's the memory throughoutput , as= I=20 can remember rambus is there better than ddr-ram. ps: we only buy pcs with 512mb ram and 80gb hd, as it doesn't make much=20 difference and someday you'll may need it ;-) > HD: Obviously you want everything in memory, but if you're doing much > logging you might get a solid-state disk. and only write in chunks, not each entry alone and not in sync mode ;-) > I've done a little comparison testing of prebuilt firewall routers with a > few little DLink/Sonicwall/Netgear boxes vs. an Athlon running IPCop, but > I'm sure someone has done better hardware tests than mine. > I'm open to any info. If I get enough for a good summary perhaps it could > be added to the HOWTO. > Thanks. look at the pci performace of the chipset, there are big differences =2D --=20 Regards, Robert =2D ---------------- Robert Penz robert.penz AT outertech.com =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+QY2T8tTsQqJDUBMRAgF4AJ9dUUU3oXTRIqs/XhnClT1dZ8lshQCgn9i4 jZnLT2lPOnrCfRDF7mWqutk=3D =3D8ATL =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
