Sounds like Soekris might be right up your alley if you want physical interfaces. http://soekris.com/ . I've had a net5501 running openbsd for ages, its been one of my longest operating devices, and I've literally never had an issue with it. The net6501 is looking very appealing too. I ran pfsense on it for a period of time and it went swimmingly.
as far as dot1q goes, I have no experience with it on pfsense in particular... but logical interfaces are just as good as physical interfaces. As long as you're not exceeding the bandwidth of the interface you can aggregate as much traffic across the trunk as you want. PPPoE is technically layer 3 even though PPP is layer 2. If this is the case, it should not care what layer 2 is doing in terms of logical vs physical. -Ian On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Erik Anderson <erike...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all - > > Historically, I've used the Alix 2d3/2d13 boards - these have three > interfaces, and have worked perfectly for me. I now have an instance > where I'm going to need triple-wan capabilities, and am wondering what > options and/or recommendations are out there for this situation. I > would prefer to stick with an embedded setup if possible. > > I guess the other question I have is: instead of looking for a > quad-interface board, can I accomplish the same thing by just adding > an 802.1q switch and trunking a couple of the WAN circuits through the > switch? I would imagine keeping each individual WAN circuit on its own > VLAD ID would be the only way to do this is a secure and reliable > fashion. A couple of the WAN circuits will be ADSL, requiring PPPoE > negotiation - I'm not sure if this changes anything with regards to > being able to terminate the circuit at a switch instead of directly in > one of the router interfaces. > > Thank you! > -Erik > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >
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