[geeks] Firewalls...

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Err, meant to say multiple pci buses.  My head isn't screwed on quite
straight today.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> Can't one get PC motherboards with multiple PCI slots.
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Chris Byrne wrote:
> 
> > David,
> > 
> > As long as you don't put more than 5 pci cards in you are generally OK. Some
> > motherboards can handle six reliably, some cant. Of course it depends on
> > your MoBo and the overall composition of your hardware and software.
> > 
> > That's the thing about PC hardware that makes it so difficult to properly
> > support. There are so many variables, different configuations of hardware
> > and software etc... that knowing all of the possible issues is essentially
> > impossible.
> > 
> > And then of course we also get back inot the PCI bus bandwidth inadequacies
> > issue.
> > 
> > Chris Byrne
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> > Of David Cantrell
> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 17:02
> > To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: Re: [geeks] Firewalls...
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 12:49:56PM -0600, Clay Mellender wrote:
> > 
> > > Actually, the IP Chains and IP masquerading built into linux is very
> > > robust. I have been using it for years, and it performs very well, even
> > > on a 486 with 20 Mb of ram. Ping times are very good, and with some of
> > > the package enhancements there are some very powerfull features.
> > 
> > I'm not denying that - in fact, I do the same.  But I am wary about trying
> > to run too many interfaces on Linux, simply because PC hardware is a bit
> > crap.
> > 
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