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From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= <pasik@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Question about high perfomance Linux firewall
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:07:54 +0300
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To: Javier Miguel =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rodr=EDguez?= <javier.miguel@talika.eii.us.es>
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On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:36:23PM +0200, Javier Miguel Rodr=EDguez wrote=
:
>
> ...
>=20
> Which gigabit ethernet card is more suitable for high perfomance=20
> filtering? Any special advice
> about linux distro/ kernel tuning?
>=20

Hi!

I've been using both tg3 and e1000 cards with Linux firewalls. Both have
been doing fine.

Hopefully somebody other can reply with some benchmarked data or more
information about these cards and their features (supported in Linux).

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