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this is potentially my new router I've been meaning to try out pfSense and

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there's actually a couple other DIY make

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an old computer your router os's um but

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I'll be I'll be trying pfSense first cuz it seems to be the most common one and

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uh so I'm using an old computer this is an Intel 965 board I've got a Pentium 4

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630 in there or something like that 4 gigs of old ocz check this out this the

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part number is Vista upgrade RAM nice um 80 plus bronze power supply

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for efficiency a little SSD for silence

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and efficiency I mean the Pentium 4 will have to be replaced if this works in all

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likelihood but I just wanted to whip something together so I could try it out

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I'm going to be using this optical drive right here for the OS install here's the

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pfSense OS disc I've got a couple of uh

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well I've got one Intel Nick and I think I had another one somewhere and then I

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have also because it's an INT board it does use Intel networking for its

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onboard so I have the 1 GB Port there as well and then I'll be using just a uh

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nit gear switch to do all my gigabit switching and then I found out of my

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three wireless cards this one is the one that has a compatible chipset where

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there are drivers for the pfSense OS so I'll be trying the release candidate uh

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one for the new version 2.0 of the software and let's see how this goes I'm

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going to get this started my Razer Naga Mouse uh had to unplug it it's causing

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some kind of error to do with the LEDs lighting up or something along those

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lines so I'm now in the installer mode I

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had to connect an IDE optical drive in order to install it

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this old motherboard won't boot from USB Optical very elegantly so uh H here we

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go never done this

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before okay why don't we just accept these settings let's do a quick easy

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install uh yeah we can erase all the contents to this disc here it goes guys

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okay so I had some instructions before it rebooted to put in

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192.168.1.1 uh username admin password pfSense so I got to do that it's asking

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me now this is on first boot shows me my network interfaces it doesn't seem to be

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picking up the uh the one built into the motherboard so it's possible that that's

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not going to work for me uh do not want to set up V

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lens if you do not have at least one interface you cannot continue if you not

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have at least one real network interface card or one interface with multiple

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vlans then pfSense will not function

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correctly if you do not know the names of your interface you may choose to use

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Auto detection in that case disconnect all interfaces now before hitting a to

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initi initiate Auto detection I

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should okay Auto detection

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time all right I guess I better go plug in my

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uh I guess I go better plug in my modem

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so a few changes have been made I'm going to actually move over to the other

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room so that I can plug the Lan interface into my network switch and the

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uh when interface into to my router the

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router one seems to be working so far but I haven't had a chance to uh here

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are my two Intel Pro 100s desktop

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adapters so I haven't had a chance to uh to plug the Lan one in because I don't

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have two cables running into this room I've also removed one of the wireless

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cards because since the onboard networking did not work with pfSense I

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had to put in the additional um wired Network Port card so let's see how this

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goes okay so I think I figured out the configur stage of things here uh

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basically I assigned interfaces so I assigned my interfaces to the wide area

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Network and local area network I set the interface IP addresses so I Set My Lan

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one to kind of a standard router IP address and then

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um I also had to set starting and ending ranges for the DHCP server which will

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assign IP addresses to all of the computers on my network so right now I

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still have uh my PC the Home Server a

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couple other or one other PC in the

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house connected to my router here but I'm actually I've got my pfSense

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router connected to my network switch there so I'm going to be using that to

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test a couple other computers including this notebook that I've hooked up to

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find out if this works so actually I

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guess you guys can find out real time what's going on

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here whether it works or whether it does

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not okay actually I might need a minute okay so it works it looks like I have

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logged in from user admin from 192168

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1.11 which is The Notebook that I've connected to my network switch right

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here so I have internet access and I

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have logged into the pfSense web interface so I'm pretty much done on

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this side as far as I can tell and uh I

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have never used this before so I'm not even going to begin to try and talk

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about how to use it but but um yeah I

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mean why don't we do a little exploring just right off the bat here to have a

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look at what we got here so we got CPU usage memory usage which I would have

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expected to be quite low uh we've got the platform we're running here's

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version 2.0 rc1 which is what I am using okay here's my interfaces which I

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set up already in the command line interface systemer manager firmware

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General setup logo now my understanding is it's a

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little on the complicated side for networking new noobs which I am one of

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so yeah we're not even going to try and begin to explore this right now but I'm

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hoping to be able to figure out how to use it and then maybe I'll be able to

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provide an update for you guys thank you for checking out this

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little um exploration episode of lineus

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