Things I wish I had known about pfsense before buying my box
1. pfSense does not generally support more than one network connection per LAN. That is: Most off-the-shelf routers have one WAN port (for internet) and multiple LAN ports (for your stuff). You can plug any/all stuff into any/all LAN port(s) and it just works. pfSense is not like this. It expects to have one WAN port and one LAN port. That's all . If you want more, you're supposed to use a network switch. This may seem counterintuitive, but switches do everything in hardware and are actually faster. This means there is really little need to buy a pfSense box or NIC with more than two Ethernet ports (at extra cost). It won't use the extra ports by default; they are NOT plug-and-play. In fact, they won't even work until you set them up! I wish I'd realized this, as I purchased a pfSense box with six ports, which cost more. I didn't realize the extra ports weren't intended to be plug-and-play for one LAN. It also means th...