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old laptop into firewall

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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0 spatel over 12 years ago

Thank you Barry.

It looks like NIC is bad.  I tried everything that I can think of.

Is there list of supported USB NICs?

There is docking station available for my laptop (not usb one).  It's Lenovo z61t Thinkpad.  That docking station has ethernet port so that count as 2nd port?  Do you think it will work?

Thank you again

Samir
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0 spatel over 12 years ago

Thank you Barry.

It looks like NIC is bad.  I tried everything that I can think of.

Is there list of supported USB NICs?

There is docking station available for my laptop (not usb one).  It's Lenovo z61t Thinkpad.  That docking station has ethernet port so that count as 2nd port?  Do you think it will work?

Thank you again

Samir
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