On April 22, 2014 4:58:14 PM CDT, Jim Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>On Apr 22, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>> On Wed 23 Apr 2014 05:02:59 NZST +1200, Jim Thompson wrote:
>>
>>>> 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).
>>>
>>> WiFi isn't recommended until at least pfSense 2.2, if then.
>>
>> OK, thanks Jim, good to know. Do you mean this to apply to USB wifi
>only?
>
>No.
>
>> There are cheap mPCIe atheros-based wifi cards for the PCEngine APU
>> board. Are they known to be reliable?
>
>Yes, I know. We sell thousands of them every month, but not for use
>in pfSense. Maybe with 2.2 the situation will improve.
>
>>> You can pick up the 8 port HP switches (e.g. 1810-8G aka J9802A) for
>less than $100 these days.
>>> No fan, so noise-free. < 8W maximum.
>>
>> Yes, thank you for mentioning that - I had seen that yesterday and
>their
>> power specs had escaped me when I looked at them previously (some of
>> those similar models do guzzle it).
>>
>> That's my plan B, but I really don't like to use VLANs when I can
>avoid
>> the clutter and complexity (more bugs, more time spent). A pfsense
>box
>> with more ports is much easier.
>
>You asked. BTW, VLANs end up as less clutter, not more.
>
>jim
>
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Using VLANs when combined with LACP is also (literally, mathematically)
infinitely more resilient to many common types of physical failure, and gives
you the added bonus of being able to exceed the speed of a single link in many
cases.
-Adam
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