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      thezfunk
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      It's on old BX board.  I am using a 3com 590tx as the LAN on the PCI bus.

      As a side note…does pfsense support VIA padlock hardware encryption i.e. openvpn...wait a search has told me that it will work.

      Then...does pfsense support usb wireless cards?

      oh and my connection is 15mb down with 1mb up.

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        Accounts
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        With only 1mb upload you will want to limit to 8 players. You'd want about 3 megs for 24 players.

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        • GruensFroeschliG
          GruensFroeschli
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          Somehow i dont believe you need 128 kbit/user.
          I know that the mods on the HL1-engine (like TF1, CS, etc.) used about ~45 kbit/user, and somethow i dont think Valve more than doubled the communication payload ^^"

          We do what we must, because we can.

          Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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          • jahonixJ
            jahonix
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            @thezfunk:

            …PII 350...
            oh and my connection is 15mb down with 1mb up.

            That's challenging.
            There was a speed test on the retired Soekris boxes with 233MHz CPUs. They were maxing out at 16MB and IPsec was only 3MB IIRC.
            For game play I wouldn't want a router that's running on the edge. Personally I would use some beefier old hardware. But I don't play and don't plan to.  ;D

            But I think you have the hardware already, so why don't you just check it out and post the results here?

            @thezfunk:

            Then…does pfsense support usb wireless cards?

            AFAIK not.
            Look on the Hardware compatibility list.

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              thezfunk
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              @jahonix:

              @thezfunk:

              …PII 350...
              oh and my connection is 15mb down with 1mb up.

              That's challenging.
              There was a speed test on the retired Soekris boxes with 233MHz CPUs. They were maxing out at 16MB and IPsec was only 3MB IIRC.
              For game play I wouldn't want a router that's running on the edge. Personally I would use some beefier old hardware. But I don't play and don't plan to.  ;D

              But I think you have the hardware already, so why don't you just check it out and post the results here?

              @thezfunk:

              Then…does pfsense support usb wireless cards?

              AFAIK not.
              Look on the Hardware compatibility list.

              I will be getting this:  http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A4842001#

              That should do the trick.

              Ok…I see about the USB wireless cards...but what about USB NIC cards...it looks like they are supported and then I can just plug a WRT into that?

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              • jahonixJ
                jahonix
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                @thezfunk:

                …but what about USB NIC cards...it looks like they are supported and then I can just plug a WRT into that?

                Why do you want to do that? USB-NICs aren't likely to work well with BSD if at all.
                You got 2 PCI slots in that board. Put some NICs in there, probably a dual or quad NIC and you're done.

                And check the hardware compatibility with the onboard NIC: LAN: VIA VT6103L PHY 10/100 Base-T Ethernet
                If that's not supported you better forget about that board!

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                  thezfunk
                  last edited by

                  The reasoning behind it is I need four interfaces.  WAN, LAN, DMZ, and Wireless.  I can get three on that board to include the onboard NIC.  There are good dual NIC cards?

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                  • GruensFroeschliG
                    GruensFroeschli
                    last edited by

                    Intels !
                    If you have the money get Server-class NIC's that reduce CPU usage further.

                    We do what we must, because we can.

                    Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                    • jahonixJ
                      jahonix
                      last edited by

                      This one is Intel based and is not PCI-X:
                      http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250186740434  DIGITAL/Compaq/H-P DE504 QUAD 10/100 Ethernet PCI NIC

                      Or just search for "PRO/100 S Dual" on eBay.
                      Here's a great one:
                      http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270181793781  Intel Netzwerk Adapter PRO/100 S Dual Port 22P4909

                      Use one quad or two dual NICs.

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                        thezfunk
                        last edited by

                        @jahonix:

                        This one is Intel based and is not PCI-X:
                        http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250186740434   DIGITAL/Compaq/H-P DE504 QUAD 10/100 Ethernet PCI NIC

                        Or just search for "PRO/100 S Dual" on eBay.
                        Here's a great one:
                        http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270181793781   Intel Netzwerk Adapter PRO/100 S Dual Port 22P4909

                        Use one quad or two dual NICs.

                        How aboot:  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=230191399806&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=013

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                          razor2000
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                          @thezfunk:

                          @jahonix:

                          This one is Intel based and is not PCI-X:
                          http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250186740434   DIGITAL/Compaq/H-P DE504 QUAD 10/100 Ethernet PCI NIC

                          Or just search for "PRO/100 S Dual" on eBay.
                          Here's a great one:
                          http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270181793781   Intel Netzwerk Adapter PRO/100 S Dual Port 22P4909

                          Use one quad or two dual NICs.

                          How aboot:  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=230191399806&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=013

                          Those parts you listed work grea as I use them all the time in my pfsense builds.  I have even bought from the seller in that ebay auction.  He lots of those that he has sold before and all have been flawless.

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                            thezfunk
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                            There wouldn't be any throughput differences between the dual and quad?  Each controller seems to have it's own chip.  If I remember correctly from my microcontrollers class…the PCI bus is parallel so those multiple NIC cards just have parallel controllers, correct?  It would be the same as just having a second card plugged into the board?  I did notice some people on the m0n0wall forums saying they use these cards.  I am guessing if something works on m0n0wall it will always work on pfsense.  Considering m0n0wall development seems behind pfsense development.

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                            • jahonixJ
                              jahonix
                              last edited by

                              @razor2000:

                              Those parts you listed work grea as I use them all the time in my pfsense builds.

                              Actually, these are exactly what I use. I just didn't find them when searching on eBay.

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                                thezfunk
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                                Thought I would respond here so everyone know how the hardware choice has worked out.  That 60 dollar VIA board is working great with those two dual Intel NICS I got off of Ebay.  It's quite the nasty low power pfsense build.  Used the embedded version on a SD card.  I would recommend this configuration, heartily.

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