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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch
      last edited by

      Easiest thing to do would be to buy an add on card that is compatible and forget about the built in NIC.

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      • IT-ADMINI
        IT-ADMIN
        last edited by

        hhh, both of your suggestion are great and worth a try
        thank you a lot

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          You bet. Hope that they help.

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          • IT-ADMINI
            IT-ADMIN
            last edited by

            oooooooooooooh, very very gooooood idea, i make another additional NIC and pfsense recognize them both
            thank you very much Mr jaredBusch and Mr scott too
            we learn from you too much, i hope one day i can help others

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
              last edited by

              Let us know if it works. 🙂

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              • IT-ADMINI
                IT-ADMIN
                last edited by

                everything work like a champ

                thank you very much

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  Awesome! Glad that it is working.

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                  • IT-ADMINI
                    IT-ADMIN
                    last edited by

                    thank you very much,
                    and for jaredBusch i'm very appreciated for his excellent idea

                    best regard

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                      ual4720
                      last edited by ual4720

                      I'm just curious. How did you convert the driver over for pfsense? I am having a heck of a time getting they Optiplex 3020 Internal nic to work with pfsense.

                      I've tried ndisgen and attempted iconv on pfsense but I've had zero luck. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Welcome to the MangoLassi community!

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                          ual4720 @scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          @scottalanmiller Thank you!

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                          • ?
                            A Former User
                            last edited by A Former User

                            You will have the best luck with Intel based nics on BSD/Pfsense

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @ual4720
                              last edited by

                              @ual4720 said:

                              I'm just curious. How did you convert the driver over for pfsense? I am having a heck of a time getting they Optiplex 3020 Internal nic to work with pfsense.

                              I've tried ndisgen and attempted iconv on pfsense but I've had zero luck. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

                              I don't believe that he did. In this case, if I read what he wrote correctly, he solved the issue by buying a third party NIC to use instead. Likely an Intel card, they are the most popular now and not expensive.

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                                ual4720 @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller Unfortunately i have already used the slot open for another NIC(intel).

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  You might be stuck then. pfSense isn't really viable on that hardware. What about Smoothwall or VyOS?

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    If this is for home, Sophos has a free download option too... http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx

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                                    • ?
                                      A Former User
                                      last edited by

                                      You can get PCI/PCIE cards with 2-4 nics on one card. But they can get pricey being true server nic's

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        I've used SmoothWall in the past, it was quite good: http://www.smoothwall.org/

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                                        • ?
                                          A Former User @scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by A Former User

                                          @scottalanmiller said:

                                          If this is for home, Sophos has a free download option too... http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx

                                          Bookmarked, looks cool!

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                                            ual4720
                                            last edited by

                                            Yeah, I can return the sing nic I have; however, I am interested in hacking this together for learning opportunity. I am looking at other options. How does zentyal stack up against smoothwall?

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