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    How many NIC's PFSENSE can handle ?

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      ariel-s
      last edited by

      HI,
      I'm running my PFSENSE on a HYPER-V cluster.
      Currently I have 7 NICS: 2 LAN + 4 WAN + OPENVPN
      I'm pretty happy with PFSENSE's performance.
      I'm planning to connect an other 3 NICS: 3 LAN + 6 WAN + OPENVPN
      I'm wondering if it's OK to have 10 active NIC's'.
      I didn't find any reference to a maximum of NICs allowed.

      Thanks,

      Ariel

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        There isn't a maximum, though things will slow down as you get to fairly high numbers (a couple hundred, give or take, depending on the speed of your hardware)

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          akuma1x
          last edited by

          How does one add "a couple hundred" NICs to a machine?

          Jeff

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            VLANs, VPNs, anything virtual.

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