I’m a pretty novice person considering installing opnsense for my personal home use.

Their documentation has what would seem to be incomplete hardware requirement.

For example it does not list any network hardware. I assume you need at least 1 Ethernet connection. I recall reading somewhere that you might need 2 network cards? One for in and one for out?

What about network card specs? I have old computers lying around that exceed the CPU/RAM/SSD requirements but cards are practically antiques. Should I upgrade? If so, to what?

ETA: The best internet I could subscribe to where I’m at is 1024 Mbps down, 50 Mbps up. So don’t worry about wasting fibre speeds. :(

Does anyone know about a more thorough description of requirements?

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    11 year ago

    I was hoping to make use of one of the various computers I have cluttering this place up so I could justify continuing the collection. ;)

    Do you know how to determine suitability of an existing card, or how to correctly purchase a replacement?