I'm using vlans on the Mikrotik switch. It's for home use. I can't justify spending the cash for a 4 port NIC and I wanted to play w/ vlans and pfSense. Seems to work really well so far.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Sherwood Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 3:46 PM To: pfSense support and discussion Subject: Re: [pfSense] Anyone here used Netgate hardware for home use? Andy - did you actually put a quad port gigabit NIC into that system, or are you talking about 802.1q with the Mikrotik? If yes, which card? I assume the PCIe slot on that Foxconn is only half-height? It doesn't say at Newegg. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Holzrichter Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 3:35 PM To: pfSense support and discussion Subject: Re: [pfSense] Anyone here used Netgate hardware for home use? I've used one for several years. Worked great. Never had a problem running the embedded version of pfSense on it. Did everything I needed including a IPSEC VPN tunnel to work. I outgrew it when I wanted to start caching things, have the ability to easily track bandwidth across reboots, and track what the teenagers in the house are doing. (I don't generally track them, but I make sure they know I can. I glance through logs occasionally to see that all is well.) I ended up replacing it w/ a Foxconn system from Newegg. (Foxconn SFF R10-A1 AMD E-350 APU) It only had one NIC, but I fixed that w/ a Mikrotik RB250GS. It's overkill but now I have 4 Gigabit NICS, a SSD for storage, and way more memory/cpu than I can use on my home network. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of justino garcia Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 2:41 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [pfSense] Anyone here used Netgate hardware for home use? Anyone here used the Netgate m1n1wall 2D3 / 2D13 Blue? Does this unit run the full version of PFSense, and is 256 MB for a home office deployment enough? Do I need third nic, and separate my WLAN and lan, and then just have vlans for each network and a secure tunnel bettween lan and wlan? -- Justin IT-TECH -- Justin IT-TECH
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