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    Please add support for windows Hyper-v server network adaptre

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      sherifebeid
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      Hello
      Thanks for your big work…!!
      when installing pfsense over windows 2008 r2 server as a virtual machine. pfsense cant detect the network cards.
      so network card setting have to be changed to legacy network cards, which microsoft stats that it is slower.....
      Microsoft released a driver for its network cards on this link
      http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=eee39325-898b-4522-9b4c-f4b5b9b64551
      this include 5 drivers
      the most 2 important is the network driers
      and Timesync: The clock inside the virtual machine will remain synchronized with the clock on the host. 
      note: Timesync this is a big issue, i tried installing mikrotik as a VM on windows 2008 and the time on the vm is not sync with the server clock and this makes a big problem on radius server logs that results in repeating the login sessions ...
      so merging this driver pack inside pfsense would be great...
      thanks

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        jilingshu
        last edited by

        @sherifebeid:

        Hello
        Thanks for your big work…!!
        when installing pfsense over windows 2008 r2 server as a virtual machine. pfsense cant detect the network cards.
        so network card setting have to be changed to legacy network cards, which microsoft stats that it is slower.....
        Microsoft released a driver for its network cards on this link
        http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=eee39325-898b-4522-9b4c-f4b5b9b64551
        this include 5 drivers
        the most 2 important is the network driers
        and Timesync: The clock inside the virtual machine will remain synchronized with the clock on the host. 
        note: Timesync this is a big issue, i tried installing mikrotik as a VM on windows 2008 and the time on the vm is not sync with the server clock and this makes a big problem on radius server logs that results in repeating the login sessions ...
        so merging this driver pack inside pfsense would be great...
        thanks

        hi,
        I have read your link and found it content only Linux Driver?
        pfSense is based on FreeBSD and it looks like that there is no FreeBSD driver for this NIC. So I think you'd better contact http://www.freebsd.org to find help :)

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          Zappza
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          The legacy network adapter is indeed slower, but you'll need to have a extremely fast internet connection to notice any difference. It is more than fast enough for standard use.

          The timesync problem could be fixed by using setting up pfSense as a NTP Server and setup the host and other network computers to use pfSense for timesync. You can also tweak the update frequency that Windows use to sync time.

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            asd0109
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            you can install virtualbox on you server,it`s free and you can use intel server net card (virtual card). :)

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