<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Bill Kenworthy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billk@iinet.net.au" target="_blank">billk@iinet.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1bj" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Yep, but still the same problem - you need hardware to run it on.<br>
pfsense have some 3 port alix based hardware but nothing 16 port or<br>
more. They offer a guide to producing high throughput PC based systems<br>
but its still not cheap/simple. pfsense has a routing and not switching<br>
focus.<br>
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You can get PCI 4 port Intel switch cards for ~$75 - but I have only<br>
seen 1 sockets on a motherboard - a quick search didn't show anything<br>
different so it may be a technical limitation?<br>
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BillK</div></blockquote></div><br>You could grab a juniper switch. They are much cheaper than cisco and the ones that run Junos are freebsd underneath. They're pretty flexible.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Leon<br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'<br><br># cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats<br>Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!</div></div>
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