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    300MHz Geode okay for 20Mb+ internet connection?

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      cmb
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      That page is getting updated soon with much more info, including notes on NIC differences, pulling from content from the coming pfSense book.

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        Skud
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        Sweet!!

        Riley

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          mojo-chan
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          How badly is the on-board Realtek NIC likely to slow things down? I have a PCI Intel NIC as the second connection.

          Which is best to use as LAN/WAN, or doesn't it make much difference?

          I will be using traffic shaping if it makes any difference.

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            Cry Havok
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            See the (many) threads on the issue, including a post from me in the last week or so.

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            • GruensFroeschliG
              GruensFroeschli
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              Basically if you want that it works dont use realtek's and stick to intel.

              We do what we must, because we can.

              Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                mojo-chan
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                I got everything up and running today. Limited to 10Mb with polling off, 6.5Mb with it on. FAIL.

                I'm going to get a dual Intel NIC off eBay and see if that fixes things. I really hope it does.

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                  mojo-chan
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                  I installed the dual NIC (Compaq, two Intel chips, fxp) and now the machine won't boot :(

                  I can see it gets as far as "Configuring WAN interface…" on the serial console. I read that DHCP time-out can be up to 20 minutes, but I waited half and hour and it still didn't work. I also tried a clean install from the original image to erase all configuration. After assigning interfaces, it hung again.

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                    cmb
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                    DHCP timeout will never be more than a minute (there was a version quite a while ago with a bug that made it wait longer, long since resolved). Something going on with your hardware not playing well together. Try the usual, BIOS update, disable PNP OS.

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                      mojo-chan
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                      I tried everything, but it just won't work. I even tried another card with different PCI controller. I guess this box just does not like having more than one PCI device :(

                      I am looking for more suitable and cheap hardware. As usual it seems to be a case of "good, fast, cheap - pick any two" :(

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                        wallabybob
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                        Is your power supply capable of supplying the current needed by the dual NIC PCI card?

                        Maybe the box was built to a price (or size) and consequently the power supply doesn't have much margin.

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