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Hardware and Performance / Utilizing onboard AND addon NIC card?

« on: May 01, 2018, 03:50:00 pm »

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Onboard is a not so great REALTEK gigabit single port, and the addon card I installed is a 4-port NIC (which I later realized was overkill for my setup).

I'm getting okay-ish performance over LAN transfers, and currently my two interfaces are:

• LAN (port 1/4 on NIC)
• WAN (port 2/4 on NIC)

That's all I use, pretty simple.  The onboard realtek port is currently disabled, as I know most people say avoid it.  Just wondering though, am I losing out on free bandwidth by not utilizing the two separate physical interfaces? Or is any potential bottleneck coming from other factors (Could it be my unmanaged network switch, an 8-port $20 d-link switch?)? 

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General Discussion / Re: Thank you!

« on: May 01, 2018, 03:36:51 pm »

Donation information can be found here: https://opnsense.org/donate/
Please note that you can also contribute code or time at the forum helping others.

I see that thanks! Hoping to see other donation methods in the future 

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General Discussion / Thank you!

« on: April 30, 2018, 04:13:01 pm »

Hello,

I've been using pfsense for a few months now. I started because I am in school to learn more on network administration and running my own personal router has been the single most beneficial thing I've done for myself in this regard.

Sadly, my hardware is too old to support AES-NI and I can't see myself upgrading any time soon. I gave opnsense a try just yesterday, and have been pleasantly surprised. The issues I've had in the past with lag spikes and QoS (or traffic shaping) have vanished, and I haven't even setup true traffic shaping yet. Traffic shaping and bandwidth limitation has always been the pinnacle of my problems on pfsense, or at least I thought. I don't know what magic opnsense has done to my home network, but my plex streams and p2p connections can't seem to bog down my network like before. So far I see no need to setup traffic shaping.

Also, while pfblockerng was very powerful, I wasn't a fan of the user interface. Is there any plans of opnsense to integrate a pretty version of that? Til then, I'm using an unraid docker for pihole and it's doing the job just fine.

Thanks for this fantastic open source project.

Do you guys accept donations in Cryptocurrency? Nano, Ethereum, etc?

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