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Sophos Home UTM Advice

Dear Sir/Madam,

Can you tell me if the Sophos UTM Home is do able setting up on a Dell Optiplex 3050.

It has 1 network card on board but are you able to add an additinal usb network dongle im trying to get the install to detect this but is only detecting the onboard network card.

If someone could please advise i would be very grateful.

Thanks

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0 Darren Wallbanks1 over 2 years ago

Thank you for the info i was trying to avoid having a big tower and thought might be able to utilise a micro micro PC Dell optiplex 3050. Im assuming u cant use the WiFi card and it has to be ethernet port.
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0 Darren Wallbanks1 over 2 years ago

Thank you for the info i was trying to avoid having a big tower and thought might be able to utilise a micro micro PC Dell optiplex 3050. Im assuming u cant use the WiFi card and it has to be ethernet port.
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0 Darren Wallbanks1 over 2 years ago in reply to Darren Wallbanks1

Thank you for the info i was trying to avoid having a big tower and thought might be able to utilise a micro micro PC Dell optiplex 3050. Im assuming u cant use the WiFi card and it has to be ethernet port.
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+1 Amodin over 2 years ago in reply to Darren Wallbanks1

I had to look up that PC, I thought it was a bit bigger, but that really is micro. ;)

I remember some posts asking about using WiFi as the second NIC - I honestly don't remember the answer to that. I'll see if I can look it up before Bob or someone beats me to the answer. :D

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0 Darren Wallbanks1 over 2 years ago in reply to Amodin

Brilliant thank you would be ideal if this can be run on a micro as you know desktops can be too big for tight spaces lol
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0 Darren Wallbanks1 over 2 years ago in reply to Darren Wallbanks1

Any other recommendations or suggestions would be very grateful as im keen to get this up and running asap if possible thanks
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0 alan weir over 2 years ago in reply to Darren Wallbanks1

If I remember right, only certain Atheros wifi cards will work.
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0 BAlfson over 2 years ago in reply to Darren Wallbanks1

Hi and welcome to the UTM Community!

Alan and Amodin gave you good advice. If you only have a single Ethernet port, you could get a managed VLAN switch, but the combination of the two boxes might take up a little more space than a larger PC with more slots - plus requiring a more-complex setup.

Cheers - Bob

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