NIC Setup Question
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Ok I want to try to run a linux firewall distro. I'm going to try out pfsense. I had a question about the network interface card setup. I will need 4 connections. One for internet coming in, one for DMZ, one for LAN, & one for WLAN. Now instead of having a dedicated NIC in a PCI/PCI-E 1x slot for the internet "in" connection, can I use the onboard nic built into the motherboard, reducing cost & then I would only need 3 PCI NIC cards?
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yup as long as it is supported by FreeBSD.
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,25.0.html
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If you're using 2.0, and you should be, then it's based on FreeBSD 8.1 so the hardware list is here.
Oh and FreeBSD is not Linux! ;)Steve