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    Duly noted sir.  ;D  Only need either of the 2 for now but I'll see if I can snitch a free T7400 from my friend.

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    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,40399.0.html

    this information might be relevent to you?

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    Hi wallabybob,

    it seems like I'm the only one who runs pfSense on this VIA MB or has problem with it. I've found just this thread on this forum :)

    We'd noticed this behaviour seems like the LAN Bypass feature is turned on - luckily we'll maybe have a chance to check the BIOS configuration and revision tomorrow.

    I'll let you in.

  • Some help picking a Atheros PCI-E for my build (pfsense 2.0)

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    @wallabybob:

    The FreeBSD man page for the driver for the Atheros USB WLAN chips doesn't list AP mode as supported. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=uath&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html

    The cheapest Atheros PCIe card I know of is the TP-Link TL-WN781N which is a 802.11n card. 802.11n is not yet supported in FreeBSD but some pfSense users have reported that they have had Atheros 802.11n cards working with pfSense 2.0 builds but without 802.11n features. This card is available from retail outlets near me for less than the local equivalent of US$20. At the price its probably worth trying. The FreeBSD man page for ath, the driver for some Atheros chipsets indicates the multiple hostap feature is not available on all supported chipsets. I've been a satisfied user of an Atheros based PCI WLAN card for a few years. I have no experience of the TL-WN781N which I have suggested.

    Good info :)
    I guess i will just have to pick one up and hope for the best.

    Thanks a lot for your help.

    If any one else want to have a say, don't hesitate :)

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    @pf2.0nyc:

    Those Dell boxes are great platforms - cheap, easy to fix, easy parts, etc.

    Why not buy two and keep them side-by-side "just incase"??

    I was thinking of that. I am not sure if they have any more left though….

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    @XIII:

    There is a standard to have WOL integrated into the PCI bus, so the cable is no longer required

    Thanks. I looked up the Wikipedia article on Wake on Lan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN) which says the WOL capability came into PCI 2.2. My NICs with WOL cable almost certainly pre date PCI 2.2.

    The Wikipedia article says WOL may need to be enabled on Linux through Ethertool but doesn't discuss FreeBSD.

    @pf2.0nyc:

    I do see that it should be possible however when I power down my system and send a magic packet to the NIC it does not wake up the machine.

    It might be worth doing a web search for FreeBSD WOL and reading the Wikipedia article for troubleshooting hints.

  • Is Alfa AWUS036NHR (REALTEK RTL8188RU) suported?

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    @Cry:

    I'd suggest that you'd be better off buying a supported network card.

    I've had good results with pfSense 2.0 snapshot builds and Tenda W311U and TP-Link WN321G. Both available retail from neighbourhood computer shop for well under the local equivalent of US$20.

    It appears the current revision of the WN321G uses a different chipset to the one in my revision but others apparently have the new revision working. One user has reported seeing panics on enabling the W311U but I haven't seen this problem.

    Both these devices support Access Point mode but a number of the other supported USB WiFi NICs don't support AP mode.

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    Also you wont get much help hear mixing a NAS with a firewall I dont think. For secuirty reasons its best to have them sperated.

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    FreeBSD 8.1 didn't show it support for it. So, I would choose an another card

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    I would expect that if you have two identical motherboards with the same BIOS version, you number ports on multi port cards the same way (e.g. always increasing port number as you go away from the mother board) and you move the cards from one motherboard to another such that the card in slot "n" goes to slot "n" in the new motherboard then the FreeBSD device name of a port on a card would be unchanged.

    As I think I explained earlier, if you add or remove cards the unit numbers of existing ports is likely to change.

    If you have a number of identical systems (same motherboard, same BIOs etc) and you configure them with the same types of cards in the slots (e.g. all mother boards have a 2 port PCI card in slot 2 etc) then I would expect all ports in the same position to have same name across all systems (e.g. port 3 in slot 2 is called em4 on all systems). However this is one caveat: As best I know ALL Intel GigE PCI chips are handled by the em driver. I believe SOME Intel GigE PCIe chips are handled by the em driver and others by the igb driver. Its possible some PCIe GigE cards have a different chips than other PCIe cards with the same number of ports so it may be a particular PCIe 2 port card provides em <n>and em <n+1>while another PCIe 2 port card might provide igb <n>and igb <n+1>and that can affect the naming of ports on other cards.

    If you think you have found a configuration that violates what I have written I'm happy to take a look but I would need at least the output of pfSense shell command pciconf -l -v from both systems and a very clear indication of the difference (e.g. motherboard LAN port is em0 in the first configuration and em9 in the second).</n+1></n></n+1></n>

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    Just so everyone is aware the TP-LINK TL-WN321G works great with pfSense 2.0 RC3!

    Thanks so much for everyone's help!

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    So replacing the power supply did let me boot the machine with all three NICs in it.  However, until I swapped the order of them, pfSense wouldn't see them at all.

    Anybody know why the order of PCI cards makes a difference?

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    Go with the C2D. The Atom D525 is no where close to the C2D. Realtek is not that bad as it's hyped to be.

  • Wireless Access Point for : PFSense 1.2.1?

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    Well you can pick up a Linksys WRT54G (or WRT54G2) router on the cheap and run dd-wrt. That'll be a $10 solution.

    Or for about $20US you can pick up a Cisco AIR-PI21AG-A-K9 802.11G PCI Wireless Adapter on eBay - not sure if its compatable with your version but it worked for me on 123 and on 2.0.

    Those little Cisco adapters are cheap and really good in my (limited) experience.

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    I was curious how RouterOS compared to PFsense mainly. What I'm after is something which doesn't use as much power as an Atom board, but with a little more power than an ALIX so it can do gigabit.

  • How many NIC did pfsense 1.2.3 latest version support?

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    i'm running the lastest snapshot
    2.0-RC3 (i386)
    built on Sun Aug 28 15:02:45 EDT 2011

    in this machine i have 5 nic and 1 wifi card
    with havp squid squidgard and dhcp on 4 of the nics
    so far everything good

    if i can help with any other questions
    be glad too!!

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    @mikeg:

    @Jason:

    @mikeg:

    FWIW, I'm running an 82580-based E1G44ET in stock pfSense 2.0-RC3.  However, it's an older card, and maybe there are other reasons why the E1G44HT won't work.  Also, I'm curious why E1G44HT prices seem lower than E1G44ET prices.

    The E1G44ET is based on a pair of 82576, not the 82580.

    The E1G44HT is less expensive because it uses the 82580EB which is a native 4-port chip, making the design a lot simpler.  The previous quads were actually two dual-port chips.

    Thank you.  I obviously didn't read the documentation very carefully  :-[

    So, do we know when the 82580 cards will be supported?
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    As of 9.0 it's still not supported, at least not in the hardware notes.  The driver compile is actually pretty easy though.

    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,26592.msg140323.html#msg140323

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