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Multiport network card (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi, I'm new to this topic and I'm planning on building my own home lab. I want to build one server with proxmox and pfsense in a VM. Do I need a multiport network card or is the single port on the motherboard sufficient for creating VLANs?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Just one thing to note since you said your new. I know a lot of folks like to run pfsense in a seperate device than their main server as, everytime you need to reboot you lose the whole network. Those little mini pc's are recommened as a low cost option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good point, thank you! The device is intended to be a Nas and then I want to try additional things. I also have some smarthome devices which I wanted to put in a separate vlan. Putting pfsense also on that device actually doesn't seem to be the best idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

No problem those little pc's cant remember the term, you can get an additional nic in them and make them dual nic devices.