On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:14:43AM -0500, David W wrote:

 > Does anyone have any experience putting two Gigabit ethernet cards, such as 
 > one using the "Intel i82544GC 1000BASE-T Ethernet" chip, which is supported 
 > in NetBSD 1.6, in a single 2.x Ghz PC?  Will KAME function ok with the 
 > kinds of traffic you could put through this?  Any idea on the maximum 
 > throughput with "null" ESP IPSec tunneling through such a system?

That should be no problem, in terms of basic functionality, at least.  There
are some unfortunate performance problems in the KAME IPsec (some have been
addressed, but some still remain).

 > Do I really need a PCI-X based computer coupled with Intel 82544EI PCI-X 
 > cards?  I  don't know if the dev/pci/if_wm.c driver will support that 
 > directly.

PCI-X is hardware and software compatible with PCI.  I use the Intel 82544
and 82546 Gig-E in PCI and PCI-X systems with no problems.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>