Re: RFC on hardware to be bought (FSC Primergy?)

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd_(_at_)_bsws_(_dot_)_de>]

* Sascha Schnitzler <sascha_(_at_)_apsu_(_dot_)_de> [2005-04-14 13:19]:
> question is: onboard LAN is a BCM5751, the obsd-site tells me that it 
> supports BCM570x, not a word about the 5751. Anyone got that chip 
> running? how about it's performance? does it scale well?

wasn't that the PCIe bge?
bge is not exactly your first choice, but pretty ok

> since the system will be a firewall, i need two extra nics. any 
> recommendation? 3com? intel?

3com? hell. they haven't had any good NIC since ISA times.

currently best are sk, the manpage lists some cards

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