Hardware

I just have got an old HP e-PC I would like to use as a firewall. The Problem is that is has only 1 on-board LAN adapter and no PCI-Slots. Luckily it has 2 USB ports. I would use the USB NIC as the WAN adapter and the internal NIC for LAN.

Does monowall support USB Lan adapters, and if, which are recommended?


I could find the following on the German amazon Website
http://www.amazon.de/Netzwerkkarte-Ethernet-Adapter-Stick-Anthrazit/dp/B000RHKEJI/ref=sr_1_3/303-3988963-2507432?ie=UTF8&s=ce-de&qid=1190188002&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.de/USB-ETHERNET-NETZWERK-ADAPTER-Mbit/dp/B000PT7JGO/ref=sr_1_2/303-3988963-2507432?ie=UTF8&s=ce-de&qid=1190188002&sr=1-2
http://www.amazon.de/USB2-0-Netzwerk-Adapter-Stick-Farbe/dp/B000KFZCH6/ref=sr_1_4/303-3988963-2507432?ie=UTF8&s=ce-de&qid=1190188002&sr=1-4

Thank you

Very few cards are supported in 1.2. More are supported in the 1.3 beta version, but it may be hard to find a supported one. I haven't checked, but I wouldn't recommend using USB at all.

USB networking, especially on an old PC which is only USB 1.1, sucks. You're looking at a maximum throughput of about 500 KB/sec, and it'll introduce a couple ms latency where a typical PCI NIC will be less than a tenth that.

I recommend finding a different piece of hardware so you can use PCI NIC's.

I already imagined that the USB NIC was not a good idea.