General hardware questions
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i hv finally get a trail unit up n running with 1.0.1, with an onboard 10/100 n a xircom pcmcia lan card.
the configuration is a travelmate 528te laptop with p3 800, 256mb ram n 20gb hdd.
i m trying to get the latest snapshot into it as i read that the rrd graph is better.
however, i still hv 1 issue is one of the cards doesnt support altq or something, which makes traffic shapping not possible.onboard intel detected as: fxp0
xircom lan detected as: xe0
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must be the xe driver as I know the fxp does support it. AltQ-support has to be build into the driver. not much that we can do about it. Besides trafficshaping everything will work though.
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ur rite, everything seems to work.
then i guess i m out of luck with traffic shapping. anyway, if this trail machine does improve throughput while maintaining stable connection n speed, then i would request for a proper desktop system with realtek nics.
currently i will hv firewall on to do simple filtering n traffic monitoring.thanks!
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Trafficshaping will improve things a lot when you hit high load conditions. So if you encounter problems with this and want to have a proof that trafficshaping will help you need another nic.
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i thought it's possible to cut down traffic with strict firewall rules, or i should say, i disabled the default pass all rules n just add all the available sample destination port(within the drop down box) to the allow rules. on top of that i hv yahoo messenger n msn messenger port added into the firewall rules.
will hv to find a time to make the switch n generate traffic to see how things go.end of the day i will need traffic shaping n loadbalancing to do round-robin/fail over for 2 dsl lines that we hv currently. i read trafficshaping can only work for 1 interface, so i might tie the shaping to the main line.
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That is right. currently you only can shape betwwen 2 interfaces (like LAN and WAN). Restricting unwanted traffic can help a lot of course too.
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just to confirm, is realtek certified for shaping? or i will hv to get intel nics?
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Intel is the way to go i think
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http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,16.msg35.html#msg35
rl == realtek though they might hit your cpu hard. If you really go for new equipement I recommend intel nics as well.
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hi thanks for the help.
as of now, still trying to get everything basic up and will b going for a test run soon.
the biggest problem with the users now is torrents n worms/trojans lurking around the network.
thanks.