Network adapter recommendations

[Carlos Ramos]

Hello list,

Working on a traffic control system with debian wheezy. This setup will be
in bridge mode and will probably have certain dynamic rules to avoid some
simple attack patterns. While talking to a friend he mentioned these bypass
network adapters that sound like a great idea for what I want to achieve.
These adapters change to bypass mode when the card power is lost. This
means that if for some reason the server fails, the traffic would continue
to flow, without control of course. But for this setup that's desirable.

So the question is, does anyone knows if any of these adapters work with
debian out of the box ?. Is there anyone out there using them ?. Do they
really work ?.

These are an example of the adapters I'm talking about:

http://www.silicom-usa.com/Gigabit
_Ethernet_Bypass_Networking_Server_Adapters

Thanks in advance for your time.