Hardware for using pfsense as a managed switch?

whosmatt

Curious, does pfsense have a good cli?

It has a shell, yes. If you log in (ssh) with "root" (using the same password you use for "admin" in the GUI) you'll get, by default, a menu. Option 8 (IIRC) will get you a shell. I don't believe there's a CLI as such specifically for managing pfSense, but in the shell you can do whatever you would in FreeBSD.

Billyboy

@jahonix:

@Billyboy:

We are replacing expensive company Internet lines with low cost residential VDSL lines, plus adding …

What the hell does this have to do with "using pfsense as a managed switch"? Create a new thread for your topic.

Because I am asking for an recomendation on a switch as in the thread discussed. Just not on the LAN side, but on the WAN side.