Re: [fw-wiz] quad ethernet cards

From: Joseph S D Yao (jsdy@center.osis.gov)
Date: 09/13/02 

From: Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@center.osis.gov>
To: John McDermott <jjm@jkintl.com>
Date: Fri Sep 13 16:32:01 2002

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:28:51PM -0600, John McDermott wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm building a firewall soon that will be based on a linux 2.4.x kernel.
> What quad Ethernet cards have you used successfully? I had a D-Link
> (some new version) and it did not work.

You might also ask your local Linux users' group, or go to the Linux
Ethernet driver page at

<URL: http://www.scyld.com/network/>.

Not all of the people using firewalls are using Linux. ;-) 

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Joe Yao				jsdy@center.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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