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Re: pfsense recommended NIC

the DFE-570TX is a nice card but with a ~250$ price tag it would be a bit difficult to convince the wife :P

I am just looking for something half decent, it does not have to be server class top of the line. as long as it is pretty good and reliable and lasts a year or 2.

Thanks for the opignon though that is a nice card.

Luma

I would get em cards (Intel 10/100/1000). They are excellent and well supported. If you're on a budget, get Intel 10/100 cards. But if you want to plan ahead if/when you'll want gigE on the LAN side, look at em cards.
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ya I was looking at some EM cards but I don't see the point in spending the extra few dollars.

I have gigabit at home but this will be a router that will route 16megabits of data maximum. the machine won't be used for anything else except as a router. Unless rogers really really upgrades my connection :P

Luma

Just figured if you wound up using it as a file server later on, you'd save yourself from having to buy a gigE card then. But fxp (Intel 10/100) should be fine in the near term.
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I am a geek I already have a file server

I use FreeNAS for the fileserver
going to use PFsense (for dual wan) on the router.

I am probably going to go with a soekris type small router later on with pfsense but the wife won't let me buy one just now

I might go gigabit right now anyways and later on use the cards as spares.

which model of card for intel/1000 is recommended? from newegg or something.

Luma

I have the Desktop adapters I think, and they perform great. But, I'm a cheap ass
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ya I am going to use the desktop adapters as well

my server (if you remember the chat we had about performance with freebsd 7 and mysql) has 3 intel pro/1000 server adapters. they are super nice but I rather not pay the price just for a cheap router.

Luma

Hrm the prices are more expensive than I remember paying, so perhaps these cards are better than what I have. But here's what I'd recommend from newegg:

»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···33106123
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I can live with 33 dollars compared to the lovely DFE570 (which would be nice to have though!)

I will talk to my computer guy in town and see if I can get a deal (need 3 after all)

Luma

I recommend the $33 Intel 1000GT (em) cards, I've bought a bunch recently and their performance and support is great. The driver is also regularly updated and the maintainer is an Intel employee and a mailing list regular.

I've been happy with the 3com 905-series (xl) cards in the past, but had some problems with watchdog timeouts under recent 6.x release of FreeBSD with otherwise good hardware (no connection problems, just daily log spam).
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Thanks Cabal,

Appreciate the info!

I think I am going to go for the intel a lot of folks seem to really like them.

Luma

go for the intel cards the cheaper nic put a strain on your cpu reducing throughput.