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old laptop into firewall

spatel
Hi,

I have old laptop that I like to use as firewall (home license - v9).

It only has one ethernet port.  If I get USB to Ethernet adapter, is that going to work?


Also, I was just playing with it and I tried installing v8 and it says it found one ethernet port.  But when Installed v9, it says it cannot find any network port.  Any reason for that?


What do you recommend I should buy to add extra ethernet ports?

thanks


Samir


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    Hi, the 9.1 Beta has support for some USB NICs. Try posting in the beta forum if you want to know about a specific NIC.

    Note that USB NICs are likely to suffer from poor performance, as USB does not have DMA and other important features for high throughput.

    What NIC is built-in?
    lspci -vvv |grep -i ethernet
    should give some helpful information.

    Barry
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    Hi, the 9.1 Beta has support for some USB NICs. Try posting in the beta forum if you want to know about a specific NIC.

    Note that USB NICs are likely to suffer from poor performance, as USB does not have DMA and other important features for high throughput.

    What NIC is built-in?
    lspci -vvv |grep -i ethernet
    should give some helpful information.

    Barry
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