<div dir="ltr">Looks as if I'll just have to stick with my backup plan. Turn the atom into a low powered Asterisk box, to clear the VM off my other box. For the moment, I'll stick with my old router running DD-WRT. :)<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Any recommendations on a low powered box with dual NIC that I can get in Canada, specifically for pfsense?</div><div><br></div><div>Note that this is for home / tinkering use... not a company.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks folks!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 9:51 PM, <a href="mailto:bob%2Bkwlug@softscape.ca">bob+kwlug@softscape.ca</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob+kwlug@softscape.ca" target="_blank">bob+kwlug@softscape.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have had success experimenting with pfSense on a laptop with a single NIC and using VLANs to break out the various network segments. I never got to put it into production, but got it to do everything I needed it to do.<br>
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You would need a small managed switch to separate the VLANs into individual Ethernet ports, but I think you can find pretty cheap ones that can do that.<br>
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> Mackay<br>
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> Subject: [kwlug-disc] PFSense and USB 2.0 NICs<br>
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> Hello folks,<br>
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> I have a 1.6Ghz dual core ATOM box sitting idle in the basement, from what<br>
> I've seen it'll be able to run pfsense without too much trouble.<br>
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> The issue is that, aside from the Wireless card, it only has a single NIC.<br>
> Has anyone out there used a USB NIC with pfsense? It'd be used for my WAN<br>
> connection.<br>
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> I've googled around a bit, but most of the answers are from 2012 or<br>
> earlier.<br>
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> Thanks all.<br>
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