On 12/29/2010 01:03 PM, Keith Keller wrote:
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:23:43PM -0800, Nataraj wrote:
Then the Mac mini might be what I need performancewise.
The Mini has only one wired interface, and its 802.11 interface may or may not have a fully working driver in the CentOS 6 kernel. So if you really need two ethernet interfaces you should probably consider the other alternatives raised in the thread.
--keith
Thank you keith. I've been able to use the driver from the broadcom website, at least with Ubuntu 10.04. Fedora14 has a working driver included. As you say, though there is only one interface. I once saw a fedora 10 kernel get wdged in some odd state where it was sending packets out the wrong vlan. Ever since that time, I'm pretty insistant that the Internet side of a firewall be on a completely seperate interface and switch and not just on a seperate vlan. It just feels more secure that way.
Thanks, Nataraj