@wallabybob:
Depending on your bandwidth requirements, you could use a VLAN capable switch acting as a port multiplier for one of your existing NICs.
Yes, it would be a nice workaround, but streaming from and to the mediaservers in the DMZ would be slowed down. Not that it would take the full Gbit link, but I gave it a try before I bought 2 dual port NICs ;)
@zenny:
The easiest and more reliable would be go for two quad-port intel/broadcom NIC (a bit expensive option but worth your time, imho). Forget about RealTek it gave me immense problem in the past and lost several hours to make it work, fyi.
Well, then i will have to buy one or build a new box.
@zenny:
FreeBSD 9.1 does not seem to have this problem (http://forums.nas4free.org/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=953#p3465), but pfSense 2.1 is still based on FreeBSD 8.3!
According to jimp (read somewhere in the forum), the next version of pfSense would be based on FreeBSD 10 as the pfSense developers are skipping v 9.x!
Thanks for this info :) But it will take much too long to wait for the next release ;)
br,
stephan