index1489
Premium
join:2004-03-12
Chino, CA
clubs:   | reply to sporkme
Re: pfsense recommended NIC
go for the intel cards the cheaper nic put a strain on your cpu reducing throughput. |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
The Lou | reply to luma
Curious, what sort of switch are you using? |
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luma
Premium
join:2004-08-17
Ottawa, ON
 ·surpasshosting
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| thanks everyone,
I pretty much made my decision to go with the pro/1000 from intel at 33dollars.
I won't bother going with 100 because it is almost the same price.
DaSneaky1D I have a netgear router with 4x gigabit ports and a SMC switch with jumboframe (not using the jumboframe) that has 5x gigabit switches. all my computers have gigabit except for one or 2 which are on a 10/100 dlink switch.
Luma |
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ddrmanxbxfr
join:2007-05-10
Quebec
 ·Bell Sympatico
1 edit | reply to luma
I've used 3x Dlink DFE 530TX here working nice and an 24 ports 10/100 switch on them.
First card : Internet Modem adsl
2nd Card : to my wifi AP
3rd Card : To my switch
getting around 9 mbps on local transfer using the switch sometimes 11 mbps depending on the pc used.
The server was an Pentium 2 350 Mhz with 512 Meg of ram and 6 gig of scsi hard drive 15K Rpm |
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luma
Premium
join:2004-08-17
Ottawa, ON
·surpasshosting
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| reply to luma
Here is what I am planning:
3x Intel pro 1000 desktop adapters (will arrive thursday) 33 bucks each.
Athlon 2200+
1 gig of ram
20 gig HDD (won't be using it)
for the OS I am going to use a IDE to CF adapter with a 2 gig Compact Flash card.
OS: Pfsense
Wan1: 8megabit cable
Wan2: 8megabit cable
Lan1: gigabit to gigabit switch.
the computer is a old desktop I have in the closet not being used so yes it is overpowered for a router but it works, it is stable and it only uses about 200 watts of power MAX so won't hurt the electrical bill.
I think this setup will be great for my use.
Luma |
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
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join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ | Don't quote me on this, but you might want to look at using the hard drive as I *think* that some of the add-on packages and long-term stats are not available on the flash version of pfsense. |
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luma
Premium
join:2004-08-17
Ottawa, ON
·surpasshosting
·Rogers Hi-Speed
| I am going to use the full version of pfsense and use a CF card that is large enough to support it.
I am not going to use the "embedded" version.
I could be wrong but it should work  only one way to find out.
Luma |
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Julianweber
@comcast.net
| Yes it will work but I believe they made the embedded version specifically so that it would not make frequent writes to the card and cause early failure. I have heard reports of around a year before failure using non embedded versions on compact flash. Do a Google search and see for your yourself, but it is not generally recommended. |
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