
Other people might want multiple interfaces for network segregation, for redundancy, or to have multiple IP addresses for traffic routing and metering. In my case, I just wanted to explore the unknown, and see how many interfaces I could get working on my Pi, with full gigabit speed on each one.īut some people might want to use the Pi as a router, maybe using the popular OpenWRT or pfSense software, and having multiple fast interfaces is essential to building a custom router. This card is typically used in servers that need multiple network interfaces, but why would someone need so many network interfaces in the first place? Update: I was able to boost things a bit to get 4.15 Gbps! Check out my video here: 4+ Gbps Ethernet on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.Īfter my failure to light up a monitor with my first attempt at getting a GPU working with the Pi, I figured I'd try something a little more down-to-earth this time.Īnd to that end, I present to you this four-interface gigabit network card from Intel, the venerable I340-T4: If you can see live information about the DNS queries that Pi Hole server is receiving while surfing the web on your client devices, that indicates everything is configured properly.Tl dr: I successfully got the Intel I340-T4 4x Gigabit NIC working on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, and combining all the interfaces (including the internal Pi interface), I could get up to 3.06 Gbps maximum sustained throughput. Okay, now you can go to your Pi Hole admin panel which is in my case hosted on this address then you should open a web browser on any of your pfSense router client devices, try visiting any website and observe what's happening on the Pi Hole admin panel overview. That's it, now you can proceed to the final step which is confirming everything is working as intended.




In addition to that, untick both of those options you can find at the bottom. Please refer to the image above and make sure you have added the Pi Hole IP address as a new DNS Server which is 10.0.0.100 in my case.
