You can do it with one ethernet card but you need a managed layer 2 switch
and some knowledge of VLans.

Of course a security expert will tell you that vlans are not security
boundaries.

Mike

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Ewan McLean <[email protected]>wrote:

> *Forages for an ethernet card*. Okay :)
>
>  Tony Graziano
>  03 November 2011 01:04
>
> pfsense needs to have two different interfaces in order to do nat.
>
> you need two interfaces in pfsense and set your modem into bridged mode
> and plug it into the interface you set as wan.
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>  Ewan McLean
>  03 November 2011 00:59
> That's what it's set up as just now basically. There's only one ethernet
> card - a switch connects that port to both the modem and the rest of the
> LAN.
>
> I've configured it before using a normal centos install but when i try to
> do it on pfsense it doesn't let me set both the WAN and LAN interfaces to
> be the same NIC. It says I must set a WAN interface, and seems LAN is
> optional. It says stuff about VLAN but that's beyond my knowledge.
>
>  Ewan McLean
>  02 November 2011 22:18
>  <http://servistech.co.uk> <http://servistech.co.uk> Anyone use a single
> NIC with pfsense? My 'WAN' interface will just be the ADSL modem which is
> normally a virtual/PPP interface which runs over the single ethernet card
> and the LAN interface will be ethernet. However it seems to be quite tricky
> to get pfsense to accept this.
>
> If not pfsense would something like smoothwall be a better bet?
>
> Cheers
>
> Ewan
>
>   Ewan McLean
>  02 November 2011 22:17
> Anyone use a single NIC with pfsense? My 'WAN' interface will just be the
> ADSL modem which is normally a virtual/PPP interface which runs over the
> single ethernet card and the LAN interface will be ethernet. However it
> seems to be quite tricky to get pfsense to accept this.
>
> If not pfsense would something like smoothwall be a better bet?
>
> Cheers
>
> Ewan
>
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