----- Original Message ----- > Greetings list, > > For many years I've been deploying pfSense on ALIX boards. They've > proven to be reliable and a good balance between cost and > performance. > Price in the UK is about 120 GBP (including PSU and chassis), which > means that they're cost-comparable with Draytek's higher end units > (which is their primary competition amongst our SME client base). > > Recently, we've had need to deploy pfSense with more than 3 network > interfaces, and unfortunately the ALIX boards seem to top out at 3. A > 4-port unit based on the same AMD Geode architecture more than > doubles > the price to around £250 GBP. > > Has anyone any suggestions for a 4-port alternative that's closer to > the > 3-port cost? >
If you really don't need the throughput of an additional physical NIC, a VLAN capable switch will give you as many 'ports' as you need. :) --Tim _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
