Failover over serial port / over usb?

[ElocysLP]

Hello all again,

I have problem finding affordable multi port NICS, so I thought I could make pfSense failover through something else than ethernet.
Is it possible to make the failover work through serial port ? Or may someone advice me for an usb-ethernet adapter that I could
use on both my pfSense boxes as the NIC used for the failover?

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Laurent

[jimp]

No, it can't fail over over serial, and USB ethernet is asking for trouble.

You can use VLANs, just need to get a managed switch that can use VLANs (like the Netgear GS-108T) then you can use it like a port multiplier… could be up to 7 extra NICs (1 trunk port with 7 VLANs, and each port could be on its own VLAN) or anywhere in between.

[xopah]

There are really cheap Intel MT dual nic on Ebay… (PCI-x)
They work great!