Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 23:36:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> Cc: Duncan Patton a Campbell is Dhu <freebsd@babayaga.neotext.ca>, Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sniffer nic Message-ID: <20021010233434.Q815-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20021008212150.26159.qmail@web10102.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, twig les wrote: > Nope, nothing like that. Just some good old L3-7 > NIDS. A couple things I was wondering though.... Is > anyone running the "ANA-62011 64-bit single port > 10/100baseTX adapter" from Adaptec? It's supported by > 4.6 release, but I won't be on site for the > installation so I'm looking for easy installation > here. This leads to the second question which is: > What kind of performance increase will I see with a > 64-bit 100BT nic vs the same card running in a 32-bit > slot? I'm tryig to figure out if it's worth the extra > $30 before I tell my boss to get it (well...ask him). > > Thnx for the answers so far though. You're best off going with a more commonly used card. That adaptec cards sound rather rare, so it's more likely that the driver is stale. If you want a NIC which will last into the future, get one of the Intel Gigabit cards - the driver is officially maintained by an employee of Intel, so you have someone to yell at if it breaks. :) (And Luigi claims that it performs well too...) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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