The drivers would need to support the underlying chipset They will get some kind of chipset and then just turn it into a TP-Link network product. Regarding NIC's, its not really a TP-Link card per-say. Plus that CPU doesn't have AES-NI, so its not a great fit anyway Its probably actually much MORE secure than your very old Acer desktop with no CPU security patches, probably no BIOS patches, probably a very weak security setup all together. ESXi is designed to be a production server OS. While having a physical firewall is almost always a preference for me, why do you specify security?ĮSXi is plenty secure for this. r/pfblockerng /r/sysadmin /r/networking /r/homelab /r/homenetworking This is a community subreddit so lets try and keep the discourse polite. This subreddit is primarily for the community to help each other out, if you have something you want the maintainers of the project to see we recommend posting in the appropriate category on our Netgate forum. If you are looking to sell or buy used hardware, please try /r/hardwareswap. If you are looking for help with basic networking concepts, please try /r/homelab or for more advanced, /r/networking.ĭo not post items for sale in this subreddit. Use a search engine like Google to search across the domain: We have a great community that helps support each other, but we also provide 24x7 commercial support.īefore asking for help please do the following: You can install the software yourself on your own hardware. You can buy official pfSense appliances directly from Netgate or a Netgate Partner. The pfSense project is a free, open source tailored version of FreeBSD for use as a firewall and router with an easy-to-use web interface.

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