pfsense not detecting my built in NIC

IT-ADMIN

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

scottalanmiller

Let us know if it works.

IT-ADMIN

everything work like a champ

thank you very much

scottalanmiller

Awesome! Glad that it is working.

IT-ADMIN

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

best regard

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.

scottalanmiller

Welcome to the MangoLassi community!

ual4720

@scottalanmiller Thank you!

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

scottalanmiller

@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.

ual4720

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

scottalanmiller

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

scottalanmiller

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

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

scottalanmiller

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

@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!

ual4720

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?

ual4720

@scottalanmiller Thanks for the recommendation; however, the system will have 10 locations setup with site-to-site vpn for a business. I have used pfsense for the past 5 years, but I'm not opposed to something new. We just got new hardware for each location, hence the nic issue.

scottalanmiller

Most of those should handle many VPNs without a problem. However if you just bought hardware, look at taking all of it back. Look at Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite instead. It is Brocase Vyatta under the hood and will blow away any Cisco under $3K and is only $93. You get the hardware and the software at that price. That's cheaper than a NIC alone!! You literally cannot beat it. And you can do a lot more than five VPNs from that units. And you get both OpenVPN and IPSec options.

http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgerouter-lite/

http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-Edgerouter-Router-ERLITE-3/dp/B00HXT8EKE/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1411103000&sr=1-2&keywords=edgerouter+lite

scottalanmiller

A lot of us here in the community use the EdgeRouters. They come highly recommended and there is a lot of support experience here in ML. I even use this one at home and have many customers using it too.