Never done the quad in my maxchines. I havent heard anyone getting

fired over it either though.
A quick check on dells web indicates you have two pci-e slots in those

r200s, why not get two dual nics.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Martmn Coco

 wrote:

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> Thanks!

>

> Have you tried the quad nics on those Dells? We do have a couple of R200s,

> 860s and 850s running with 2 dual port cards no problem, but we have never

> tried the quad ports.

>

> Torsten Frost escribis:

>>

>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Martmn Coco

>>  wrote:

>>>

>>> Hi misc,

>>>

>>> I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that should

>>> have more than four NICs.

>>>

>>> Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC

>>> limitation.

>>> We could tell Dell to install a quad port NIC (in addition to the

>>> two-port

>>> onboard card), but I haven't read good things about the way they work.

>>>

>>> I've also looked into soekris, but they don't seem to have enough CPU for

>>> what we want (this is pure speculation) as we also have intense IPSec

>>> traffic on some of these firewalls (I've seen that some of them could

>>> have

>>> encryption boards added to increase performance, but I don't know if it

>>> works for any kind of protocol, or at what rate).

>>>

>>> In any case, what I would like to have is firewalls with multiple NICs

>>> (at

>>> least 6 NICs) *and* sufficient CPU to let IPSec work alright at least at

>>> ~50Mbps (internal backbone firewalls). The multiple NICs are to use

>>> trunk,

>>> pfsync, real network interfaces, etc.

>>>

>>> Thanks,

>>> Martmn.

>>>

>>>

>>

>>

>> We run a pair of dell 1950s and have been generally happy with them.

>>

>> We run one dual port intel card and the two build in ports,  no

>> problem pushing about

>> 400mbit. The intel cards have worked ok for us for years now in

>> various versions.

>>

>> You can configure the box with two dual nics or two quad nics on the dell

>> web.