Dell System
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I don't quite run those speeds but according to this- http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49 you should have no problems. 10/100 card is probably almost at its limit but will most likely get you by.
Ive never run a dual 10/100 on a single pci slot. Do you run both wan and lan on it?
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Yes, WAN goes to a 4 port switch which is also used by another firewall. LAN goes to a 24 port switch and feeds to the entire home network.
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Do you run both wan and lan on it?
I mean on the same card.
Still shoooould be able to do it with the limiting factor being the PCI speed.
Anyone… Bueller??
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Yes, both on the same card. Dual port intel card. It hasn't started on fire yet :o
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I run a P4-M at 1.2GHz (currently) with 512MB. I can push >250Mbps through it. I have dual WAN 20:1 and 40:2, no problems.
A single PCI card in a typical desktop 33MHz 32bit slot will be limited by the bus to ~1Gbps. Dual 100Mbps NICs should not present any problem.Steve
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I run a P4-M at 1.2GHz (currently) with 512MB. I can push >250Mbps through it. I have dual WAN 20:1 and 40:2, no problems.
A single PCI card in a typical desktop 33MHz 32bit slot will be limited by the bus to ~1Gbps. Dual 100Mbps NICs should not present any problem.Steve
Thanks Steve for all the info! FYI, this is a single card, dual ports on it, 10/100. One is WAN, other is LAN. So far no issues at all with my 25x5 connection and no packages (yet).
What are you running for a drive on yours? I was hoping to find a SATA port on the mobo, but was unsuccessful in doing so. Will have to stick to the IDE for now. That's aboutt the only limiting factor that I can see with my setup as of right now.
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I'm running from a CF card using the NanoBSD image. My box has a slot on the board so it's easy.
Running from IDE is not really a limitation unless perhaps you are running squid where disk read times are important. Even then IDE is better supported (IMHO) than SATA at this point. SATA occasionally causes trouble for people who are running new hardware or stuff from the era when SATA was being introduced when not everything complied with the standards correctly. Any bugs in IDE were ironed out a long time ago.Steve
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Many P4 level Dell desktops had on-board Gb Ethernet, on some models it was on the PCI bus.
If yours is an Optiplex, it's likely a GX260 (P4, IDE, no SATA; 270's and up had SATA +170 had SATA.) The 260 has Gb Ethernet onboard on the PCI bus. Considering your other connections are 10/100 you shouldn't be able to really saturate the PCI bus with a single Gb connection, even if your is an Optiplex GX 260.
One thing I would worry about, though, is if it has an original (factory) IDE hard drive. Well, any non-new IDE hard drive. It's gotta be old. You don't see a lot of SSD's in IDE these days, but there certainly are a few that are still manufactured and sold, but usually to more industrial type markets. Supposedly, a GX260 with firmware A09 and newer you might be able to boot it off USB, but I hear that it's not always foolproof. You could also do a Compact Flash to IDE adapter. That's what I do on my old PIII Dell Destkop.
For the most part, though, if you just have an old IDE hard drive sitting around with a copy of pfSense pre-installed and back-up your config fairly often; replacing a failed hard drive wouldn't be all that difficult (though, annoying for others in the house when it fails and you're not home, that's always my luck.)
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I guess i'll just make sure I have a spare drive kicking around. Luckily all my servers are on a giant UPS incase bad power could ever be a factor in the drive going.
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That's a very good point. IDE drives you have to hand are likely to be old.
New IDE drives can still be had though they are very expensive for their capacity.
CF-IDE adapters are cheap. :)Steve
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Ive found that there are quite a few NOS smaller IDE drives out there to be had. But yes they cost a bit more per meg than their new counterparts.
My 4.3 Fujitsu drive should be approaching 90,000 hrs soon.
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Wow, that's quite a while on such an old drive! I'm going to just see what happens with the current machine. I have the original router sitting near so if the machine craps out, I can plug the old dlink router in for a temp fix until I can build a better pfsense machine. :)