I've been running pfsense for many years (and been very happy with it) on scrapped PCs with a Sun 4-port Ethernet PCI card because I need 5 Ethernet ports.
Now freebsd dieing on the hme driver effectively turns those cards into scrap and I'm stuck. What are alternatives now? Are there any other 4-port cards that are supported by pfsense in practice (not just in theory), that are also affordable? The power consumption (and box volume) of scrapped PCs is not optimal, and I've been looking at moving to a small single-board. Soekris was always underpowered and overpriced IMHO, and PCEngines underpowered, until they released the exciting APU series recently. They all only have 3 Ethernet ports though, which is the stopper here. What mPCIe Ethernet cards are supported by pfsense that people can recommend? Are there any USB Ethernet adapters that actually work with pfsense? Reliably? I am looking for reports from those who have tried, not the freebsd supported HW list - that list is too long and not really trustworthy (I have a USB wifi adapter which runs for 10min then makes pfsense kernel panic). The frequently recommended option of using VLANs may look good for larger commercial networks, but just buying a VLAN capable switch costs more than a suitable pfsense box and brings the power budget of the combination to the same level as a scrapped PC - with the latter winning hands down on cost. TIA for any suggestions, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
