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      justice41
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      Hello everyone. Quite new to pfSense here. I am planning to build a load balancer for a 1GbE quad WAN to 10GbE LAN. My question is, can the hardware I got be able to support at least 100 clients (mostly students)? Below is the hardware I got atm.

      Board: Asus Prime A320M-K
      CPU: Ryzen 3 2200G (4 Core, 3.5GHz)
      RAM: 8GB DDR4 2400
      Storage: NVME 128gb
      NIC 1 LAN: ASUS XG-C100C
      NIC 2, 3 WANs: Intel PRO 1000PT Dual Port

      Thanks!

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        akuma1x @justice41
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        @justice41 said in pfSense for Load Balancing:

        Hello everyone. Quite new to pfSense here...
        NIC 1 LAN: ASUS XG-C100C

        What kind of network card is that for NIC1 LAN - ASUS XG-C100C? Is that Intel or Realtek?

        Also, the other hardware seems fine. I think the Ryzen stuff doesn't properly tell the CPU temps back to pfsense, or something like that.

        See here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/147507/successful-pfsense-ryzen-3200g-build-success

        Jeff

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          justice41
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          @akuma1x said in pfSense for Load Balancing:

          @justice41 said in pfSense for Load Balancing:

          Hello everyone. Quite new to pfSense here...
          NIC 1 LAN: ASUS XG-C100C

          What kind of network card is that for NIC1 LAN - ASUS XG-C100C? Is that Intel or Realtek?

          Also, the other hardware seems fine. I think the Ryzen stuff doesn't properly tell the CPU temps back to pfsense, or something like that.

          See here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/147507/successful-pfsense-ryzen-3200g-build-success

          Jeff

          It's a 10GbE NIC from ASUS that I got around from a gaming rig that is not being used. As for CPU temps, it's prob. not a big deal since this one will sit on a rack that is air conditioned 24/7. Haven't yet built it so not sure if this NIC is supported in FreeBSD... I'll prob. find some 10GbE Intel if it doesn't work.

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            akuma1x @justice41
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            @justice41 Yeah, you'll most likely have to search for FreeBSD support on that card, like you said. Maybe one of the pros here can comment. I don't have any 10Gb networking gear, so I can't say for sure on that one.

            Here's an old post from the forum:
            https://forum.netgate.com/topic/128108/new-firewall-with-10gbit-asus-xg-c100c-help-needed

            Jeff

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