Gigabit USB or PCMCIA NICs which work with pfSense
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Can anyone recommend a Gigabit USB or PCMCIA NIC that works with pfSense?
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I take it that you using a laptop with one nic , PCMIA+ dual Ethernet nic do exist but finding one that works with Freebsd 10.3 is what you need to search for look for supported hardware its a long list FreeBSD 10.3 supported hardware
You could still pull this off with just a single nic given that the network your hosting isn't pushing a ton of traffic you would need a managed level2 switch though. [ Internet > managed switch > pfsense/router> Lan ] and route all the traffic through the single nic would work for all outbound / inbound .If your lan clients are all static you could probably get away with offloading some of the tasking through the switch it would keep the CPU utilization from being overtasked.
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I understand that it is possible to use just one NIC and a smart switch and I do have a TP-Link TL-SG2008, but have never set up a VLAN, although I guess that it something I should learn to do.
I have pfSense set up as a DHCP server and most clients are set up for dynamic IP. My first hurdle is accessing the switch which is on a different subnet. Should I enable DHCP on the switch?