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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:18:48 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        andyh@compnews.co.uk (Andrew Hird)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd as a router
Message-ID:  <199512190348.OAA08566@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951218180504.7584L-100000@sage.compnews.co.uk> from "Andrew Hird" at Dec 18, 95 06:06:20 pm

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Andrew Hird stands accused of saying:
> 
> Has anyone got any advice on setting up FreeBSD as a router, especially 
> what ethernet cards/hardware setup you'd recommend for the faster 
> possible network throughput.
> 
> Any other interesting snippets of knowledge would be gratefully accepted!

Go for PCI cards based on the DEC DC2104x chips; check around, I believe
that there are cards with up to four of these onboard, making for a 
very effective router solution.

> Andy Hird

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