4-port ethernet card as router - Anyone ever use one?

[GermyBoy]

Here's the link at only $20, as that's the price (retail) of many netgear and linksys cards. Have you ever used one?

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=A-3905

 

[d33pt]

it would just be like when you put two nics in your machine and have it as a router. except this time you wouldn't need a switch...

 

[FoBoT]

i have put 3 nic's into a box and done it that way, the 4 port card just saves room

 

[yellowperil]

Just curious - why not use a standalone router?

 

[GermyBoy]

Originally posted by: yellowperil
Just curious - why not use a standalone router?

You can, I just figured this would be cheaper than most standalone routers, especially if you have a single box sitting around somewhere.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Originally posted by: yellowperil
Just curious - why not use a standalone router?

Especially when you can get one for $20...

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Because the PCI card is only $20 + shipping 😛

 

[FoBoT]

it isn't really a cost issue these days, just do it for fun/to learn how it is done

 

[ThisIsMatt]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1167879&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

 

[yellowperil]

n/m

 

[Iron Woode]

I use an old PC for my router/firewall.

Freesco 0.32 works great and allows way more tweaking and features than any stand alone router.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
I use an old PC for my router/firewall.

Freesco 0.32 works great and allows way more tweaking and features than any stand alone router.

What about having a limited amount of ports since you can only have so many PCI card network adapters

 

[GermyBoy]

Originally posted by: ThisIsMatt
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=1167879&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

Two bad I have two of those and they SUCK!!

Even with the new firmware, if you're doing much over 4GB/day total bw, they lock up and need to be power-cycled. It's a known issue with a counter that won't rollover or something. I had to talk to tier-2 one day and the engineer wasted 15 minutes of my time explaining that this was a problem, but unless I was doing illegal things, I wouldn't need more than 4GB a day. Try being a campus distro for linux and doing less than 4GB/day, jerk engineer guy!

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
I use an old PC for my router/firewall.

Freesco 0.32 works great and allows way more tweaking and features than any stand alone router.

What about having a limited amount of ports since you can only have so many PCI card network adapters

Most retail routers only have 4 or 5.

I can have up to 10. My board supports 6 PCI slots. Plus printserver/ftpserver/dhcp server/dns server/http server, etc...

I can also use those multi port cards too.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga

Originally posted by: Iron Woode
I use an old PC for my router/firewall.

Freesco 0.32 works great and allows way more tweaking and features than any stand alone router.

What about having a limited amount of ports since you can only have so many PCI card network adapters

I use an old PC as a router/firewall and because of today's switching technologies I won't run out of ports.