No-name/generic USB Ethernet. Will they work with 1.2.3?
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- Intel Pro 100/1000 Dual Port is hard to find
- Intel Pro 100/1000 Quad port is very expensive and harder to find
- Most new motherboards only have 2-3 classic PCI slots
I'm building a 4-WAN load balancer.
on-board LAN goes to LAN
PCI Ethernet goes to WAN1
PCI Ethernet goes to WAN2
USB Ethernet goes to WAN3
USB Ethernet goes to WAN4will something like this work with FreeBSD pfSense 1.2.3?
http://cgi.ebay.ph/USB-LAN-RJ45-Ethernet-10-100-MBPS-Network-Adapter-/270508484037Don't really care about it's speed. Since my WAN's are just 4Mbps down / 0.5Mbps up DSL
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afaik usb ethernet doesn't work that great. I would use vlans instead
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are there cheap 5-port VLAN capable switches out there?
hopefully cheaper than 2x dual port LAN cards, or 1 quad port.
I don't really need the speed, since the DSL line is just 4Mbps tops. So even if it's 12Mbps USB 1.1 it's ok, as long as it functions…
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are there cheap 5-port VLAN capable switches out there?
There are some hints in this thread: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,27266.0.html
will something like this work with FreeBSD pfSense 1.2.3?
http://cgi.ebay.ph/USB-LAN-RJ45-Ethernet-10-100-MBPS-Network-Adapter-/270508484037Don't really care about it's speed. Since my WAN's are just 4Mbps down / 0.5Mbps up DSL
Maybe a couple of years ago I bought a few devices that look like that and had a similar description. They were all some variant of the Davicom 9601. Some of them worked fine with the udav driver but others required a driver patch to work because the USB IDs were reversed compared with what the driver expected. All of them seem to work with pfSense 2.0 BETA. I've used them on WAN links because my WAN bandwidth is a little bit higher than yours so the 12Mbps USB speed is probably not a serious brake on my download speeds. They seem to have worked reasonably well but, if I had the PCI slots, I'd have used one or more dual port 10/100 PCI cards. I have bought a few dual 10/100 PCI cards on eBay.
There would seem to be at least a couple of different chipsets used in devices like that. Can you check the USB product ID and Vendor ID to make sure the device is supported by FreeBSD?
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I have a Netgear GS108T and it works quite well:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122203&cm_re=gs-108t--33-122-203--Product
At around $100 it's good for an 8-port gigabit switch that does VLANs.
Though you could find cheaper used switches on eBay with more ports, they'd likely be 10/100, which may not matter since you are using it for multi-wan.
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I use one of these for my network. No complaints with it for what I'm doing.
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?rt=nc&_nkw=dell+2724&_dmpt=COMP_EN_Hubs
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Maybe a couple of years ago I bought a few devices that look like that and had a similar description. They were all some variant of the Davicom 9601. Some of them worked fine with the udav driver but others required a driver patch to work because the USB IDs were reversed compared with what the driver expected. All of them seem to work with pfSense 2.0 BETA. I've used them on WAN links because my WAN bandwidth is a little bit higher than yours so the 12Mbps USB speed is probably not a serious brake on my download speeds. They seem to have worked reasonably well but, if I had the PCI slots, I'd have used one or more dual port 10/100 PCI cards. I have bought a few dual 10/100 PCI cards on eBay.
There would seem to be at least a couple of different chipsets used in devices like that. Can you check the USB product ID and Vendor ID to make sure the device is supported by FreeBSD?
It's SUPEREAL SR9600 according to windows. And I read somewhere that this is indeed a variant of the Davicom 9601, and that the source for the driver should be modified a bit and recompiled before the Davicom 9601 can be used for it. Can this be done in FreeBSD pfSense?
Does this work by default using Beta 2.0?
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It's SUPEREAL SR9600 according to windows. And I read somewhere that this is indeed a variant of the Davicom 9601, and that the source for the driver should be modified a bit and recompiled before the Davicom 9601 can be used for it. Can this be done in FreeBSD pfSense?
The operating system component of pfSense is built from source code. If I recall correctly, my single experience of a similar sort of situation was that the pfSense developers were reluctant to change the device driver ID table ahead of FreeBSD and the FreeBSD developers were reluctant to put the change anywhere other than their main line code which meant that because the patch was submitted after FreeBSD 7.0 it didn't make it a release until FreeBSD 8.0. Maybe if I had agitated a bit more the patch might have been included in the FreeBSD 7.1 release.
Does this work by default using Beta 2.0?
Probably not, but you won't know for certain until you try it.
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Just tried it with Beta 2.0 a while ago. Didn't work.
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I returned it to the store where I bought it and swapped it with an HDMI cable instead hehe.
Anyway, it is detected as "ugen1.2" depending on which USB port I plug it it ("ugen0.1", "ugen0.2", etc.).
I dont remember the exact line that appears when I connect/disconnect it, but it's something like this:
ugen1.2 ( <some hex="" values="">USB Ethernet Network Controller) on usb1.2 has been</some>
it won't appear on the valid network interfaces.
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That's what I expected had happened (no driver wants to claim the device). Thanks for the additional detail.
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- Intel Pro 100/1000 Dual Port is hard to find
- Intel Pro 100/1000 Quad port is very expensive and harder to find
- Most new motherboards only have 2-3 classic PCI slots
I'm building a 4-WAN load balancer.
on-board LAN goes to LAN
PCI Ethernet goes to WAN1
PCI Ethernet goes to WAN2
USB Ethernet goes to WAN3
USB Ethernet goes to WAN4will something like this work with FreeBSD pfSense 1.2.3?
http://cgi.ebay.ph/USB-LAN-RJ45-Ethernet-10-100-MBPS-Network-Adapter-/270508484037Don't really care about it's speed. Since my WAN's are just 4Mbps down / 0.5Mbps up DSL
Since you're willing to buy off ebay, look for the Hong Kong sellers selling the Intel MT Dual-port Server adapters. They're about US$27 each inclusive of shipping and the sellers ship internationally. I bought a pair from them and they work like a charm on 1.2.3 final with the em(4) drivers. I use one in my cybercafe with a 3m/ 768k dsl line and one at home with a 15m/ 1.5m cable connection.
I have since switched to 2.0 after most of the webgui bugs were cleared off.See here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Intel-8492MT-1000-MT-dual-port-server-PCI-network-card-/320552969530?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0
