General rule of thumb is that if FreeBSD 6 supports it, it'll work. I don't have any machines with PCIe busses, but I can highly recommend the Intel cards (em driver) for PCI/PCI-X bus machines.
--Bill On 1/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > We have just brought a couple of Dell 850 servers to use as Pfsense > firewalls. Unfortunately I didn't check too well and have found that the > servers only have PCIe slots. I can't find specific info to say that Pfsense > supports PCIe, although I have found another mail on a FreeBSD site that said: > > We use Intel's dual port gigabit PCIe adapters in dell servers with > Freebsd 6 without any problem. > They are supported by the "em" driver. > > What I actually need is 4 extra network ports in each server so either 2xDual > port NICs or 1xquad port NIC in each server. Can anyone recommend cheep dual > or quad port PCIe NIC's that are compatible with Pfsense. > > Cheers for your help, Simon. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
