RE: Nokia/Checkpoint firewall

["Mike Hartnett" <mike () beckim com>]

The statment that 64 bit are backward compatible with 32 bit slots is not
all together true.
I have tried to place several different cards in these slots and have found
that they do not work well this is the case on a 6300 dell Quad Zeon

Michael Hartnett

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net
[mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net]On Behalf Of Roelof JT
Jonkman
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 11:02 AM
To: Joe Ippolito; firewall-wizards () nfr net
Subject: Re: Nokia/Checkpoint firewall


Joe,

In general 64 bit pci cards are backward compatible with 32 bit slots, if
I'm
not mistaken the adaptec quad will work in a 32 bit slot.
Besides supermicro and tyan are either out or coming out with boards based
on
the intel 840 chipset that have 2 64 bit pci slots, which will put the 64
bit
pci market down to something semi reasonable pricewise. As far as pure
bandwidth
goes on the pci bus, 32bit should do you. At the extreme (theoretical) end
you
have 132 Mbyte/s to play with.

You may want to check the the dlink site for the dfe570tx, a 4 port card
based on the Digital/Intel 21143, very solid, proven ethernet chipset. If it
doesn't have win2k drivers, I'm guessing it will rather soon, since that is
its market segment. (www.dlink.com) And at the pricetag its hard to beat,
~$180

roel