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9/22/12 at 2:42am
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Hey guys been thinking of turning a old x346 into a pf-sense router just wondering on compatibility with the nics on this thing , Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit NIC's , I couldn't find them on the support list other than that it looks pretty sweet any advice is welcome
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9/22/12 at 9:26am
I had a look around and I couldn't find anything specific either. You could always download it and see what happens... tongue.gif What specific part number is the chip?
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I've got an old x346 running server 2008 as our test domain controller. The onboard nic's are "Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Adapter" with PCI VEN_14E4&DEV_1659. Doing a search for that second part may help you find more information. For the purpose of a PFsense Router... this server really really really doesn't fit too well. You figure it's power requirements, use of scsi drives, and over all size make it a pretty bad choice for just a simple router. Can I suggest going on eBay and looking for an older firewall and using it instead. I know you can get an older Astaro (now Sophos) ASG320 model that can be made to run PFsense and use probably 1/4 the power this IBM is going to use.
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9/28/12 at 10:39am
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Just for anyone wonder NetXtremes do work straight out of the box with pfsense , I tested it
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9/28/12 at 2:13pm
Good stuff. smile.gif
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