[Soekris] Gigabit on 5501-70?

[nicodache]

You might give a try to good Eth card, like Intel one, that do a lot
of work (like checksumming) in hardware, while realtek chips often
wait for the processor to do that. In that case, the Geode certainly
won't be powerfull enough...

Regards,

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:31 PM, John Cox <jc-work at uphall.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
>  I want to use a 5501-70 in its default case as a firewall and
>  lightweight fileserver (samba) running OpenBSD.  I'd like to have have a
>  gigabit connection to the main network.  Does anyone have a
>  recommendation for a gigabit card that is known to work (and fit in the
>  case)?
>
>  Many thanks
>
>  John Cox