I would use the VIA C3's with the Intel NICS for troubleshooting since 
they should be fine.  I don't know about Realtek stability.  Some of my 
m0n0wall/Linux/*BSD problems I have been able to trace to NIC driver 
issues, and Intel should be stable.

Do you use something to thoroughly test your systems before production?  
I use "The Ultimate Boot CD" and run Memory and CPU tests on systems to 
verify integrity.  The only regular freezes I have ever experienced in 
m0n0wall or FreeBSD (5 or 6) have been on systems that had small but 
detectable hardware issues, often memory type or timing issues, 
sometimes CPU clock/overclock problems.

Jeff

Aaron Cherman wrote:
>> Why run m0n0wall on new Poweredge hardware?  I would actually expect 
>> more problems from new server-specific hardware than I would from 
>> older hardware, as FreeBSD (and Linux!) takes some time to stabilize 
>> drivers.
>
> It was a last ditch effort.  I thought I would try something a lot 
> beefier than my other hardware.  I have 6 Lex Systems CV860A units - 4 
> with the VIA C3 800 MHz processor and Realtek NICs, and 2 with the VIA 
> C3 1GHz processor and Intel NICs - they all run with 256-512 MB ram, 
> and 128 MB CF cards.  I have tried different brands of CF cards (ie. 
> Lexar, SanDisk Ultra, Centrios) and different ram as well.  All of 
> these froze.  3 of them are currently running fine with 1.22 in 
> different installations.  I sure would like to use one of those, it is 
> a waste of a good PowerEdge.  haha
>
>
> Aaron
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