pfsense not detecting my built in NIC
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@scottalanmiller Thank you!
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You will have the best luck with Intel based nics on BSD/Pfsense
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@ual4720 said:
I'm just curious. How did you convert the driver over for pfsense? I am having a heck of a time getting they Optiplex 3020 Internal nic to work with pfsense.
I've tried ndisgen and attempted iconv on pfsense but I've had zero luck. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
I don't believe that he did. In this case, if I read what he wrote correctly, he solved the issue by buying a third party NIC to use instead. Likely an Intel card, they are the most popular now and not expensive.
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@scottalanmiller Unfortunately i have already used the slot open for another NIC(intel).
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You might be stuck then. pfSense isn't really viable on that hardware. What about Smoothwall or VyOS?
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If this is for home, Sophos has a free download option too... http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx
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You can get PCI/PCIE cards with 2-4 nics on one card. But they can get pricey being true server nic's
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I've used SmoothWall in the past, it was quite good: http://www.smoothwall.org/
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@scottalanmiller said:
If this is for home, Sophos has a free download option too... http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx
Bookmarked, looks cool!
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Yeah, I can return the sing nic I have; however, I am interested in hacking this together for learning opportunity. I am looking at other options. How does zentyal stack up against smoothwall?
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@scottalanmiller Thanks for the recommendation; however, the system will have 10 locations setup with site-to-site vpn for a business. I have used pfsense for the past 5 years, but I'm not opposed to something new. We just got new hardware for each location, hence the nic issue.
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Most of those should handle many VPNs without a problem. However if you just bought hardware, look at taking all of it back. Look at Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite instead. It is Brocase Vyatta under the hood and will blow away any Cisco under $3K and is only $93. You get the hardware and the software at that price. That's cheaper than a NIC alone!! You literally cannot beat it. And you can do a lot more than five VPNs from that units. And you get both OpenVPN and IPSec options.
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A lot of us here in the community use the EdgeRouters. They come highly recommended and there is a lot of support experience here in ML. I even use this one at home and have many customers using it too.
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@scottalanmiller This looks awesome! How do these handle VOIP?
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@ual4720 said:
@scottalanmiller This looks awesome! How do these handle VOIP?
Very well. Have seen no VoIP issues. Remember this is enterprise Brocade under the hood - extremely enterprise grade gear.
NTG (where I am) has a pretty heavy focus on VoIP consulting and we recommend these partially because they are do good for that. One of the few routers under $1K that we've seen no VoIP quirks or issues on. We do VoIP through ours regularly. And many of our customers do too.
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Ubiquiti who makes these is using them as the recommended firewall in front of their own upcoming VoIP platform too. They are making phones that are due out this month and a PBX with an unannounced release date. So they are extremely focused on VoIP interactions with their networking gear.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Cisco under $3K and is only $93.
Sadly these days you pay a lot more for the Cisco name than you do features. I like their switches still but I don't care for their routers.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Cisco under $3K and is only $93.
Sadly these days you pay a lot more for the Cisco name than you do features. I like their switches still but I don't care for their routers.
That was most always the case.
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@scottalanmiller Thank you for the suggestion. This may turn into my primary system configuration for businesses. Too bad I am in a time crunch now, but I am certainly using this for my next job.
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@ual4720 said:
@scottalanmiller Thank you for the suggestion. This may turn into my primary system configuration for businesses. Too bad I am in a time crunch now, but I am certainly using this for my next job.
I have the Ubiquiti ERL in use at almost all of my company's clients as well as internally in our company.
I have one ERL with 14 OpenVPN tunnels up on it at all times. Never have any problems with it. Not a lot of traffic in those tunnels, but they are always there and up.
The ERL can easily do QoS policies for VoIP or anything else you want to do. It is a very hard to beat device for the price.
