Hardware

Hi All,

I'm planning to use Monowall as a router/gateway machine on an intel server with 6 interfaces in all. Question is, how many interfaces does monowall support? would I be able to use all 6 interfaces on my server?

It should be able to use all of them, I don't see why it wouldn't.

Why are you doing it this way though?  Why not just have a wan and a lan port, then hook the lan port into a switch with....however many ports you want?

Unless you need to set specific mappings and rules for each port, it might better serve you to do it all with a switch.

Good luck.

Hi Ventolin,

Thanks for the reply. Its to be used as a router and each port is it's own network with around 150+ workstations connected to it. I plan to use it big-time so I need to have one NIC for each network, thereby giving you atleast 5 networks for the router.

A follow-up question would be the scalability of monowall. Would it be able to scale to say, 1000+ users, 200 on each Ethernet port? It's going to be installed on a 1U intel server by the way, quad core, 4gb of memory..

I am trying to compare monowall and pfsense. They are basically the same under the hood but from what I get from the docs, monowall is for small networks while pfsense is for large networks.