[wellylug] PCI Lan Cards

[Richard Hector]

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 10:23, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> I'm trying out a new piece of firewall software (Astaro -
> http://www.astaro.com/) and it requires PCI network cards.
> Unfortunately neither of the PCI network cards that I have available
> (A Compaq ThunderLAN, and an early Realtek PCI) work. 
> Does anyone have a couple of PCI NICs they would be prepared to lend
> me for a few days so I can try out this software? Or alternatively
> does anyone know where I can get a couple of cheap NICs that might
> work?

The DSE Realtek cards seem to work fine for me, and are cheap. But if
this product is more restrictive than the Linux kernel needs (and it's
for commercial rather than security reasons), then IMHO they're abusing
the freedom of Linux and I'd avoid them.

Richard



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