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New setup but not sure about NIC card?

Hi All,

I am looking for some answers.

I am wanting to build a new computer/server as my firewall. It is going to be quite beefy, but what I am worried about is that the NIC I am looking at wont work?

I am thinking of getting a PCI-E NIC with 2 or 4 G-Bit ports on the one card. How will this show up on the UTM? As independent ports, as if they were seperate PCI cards?

How will that all work?

Thanks

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0 BarryG over 12 years ago

FWIW, the differences between those two NICs seem to be in power consumption and virtualization features (the ET2 uses almost twice as much power, but supports "PCI-SIG SR-IOV"), and bus speeds (I think this is a mistake though; PCIe 2.0 should be 5GT/s).

ARK | Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I340-T4
ARK | Intel® Gigabit ET2 Quad Port Server Adapter

BTW, I've had problems with quad NICs overheating in poorly ventilated computers. I'd definitely avoid the hotter ET2 unless you have good airflow across the PCIe cards.

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0 BarryG over 12 years ago

FWIW, the differences between those two NICs seem to be in power consumption and virtualization features (the ET2 uses almost twice as much power, but supports "PCI-SIG SR-IOV"), and bus speeds (I think this is a mistake though; PCIe 2.0 should be 5GT/s).

ARK | Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I340-T4
ARK | Intel® Gigabit ET2 Quad Port Server Adapter

BTW, I've had problems with quad NICs overheating in poorly ventilated computers. I'd definitely avoid the hotter ET2 unless you have good airflow across the PCIe cards.

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