Thank you all for the feedback.

I suppose the discontinuation of the Plus upgrade for home labs was a financial one.

Bummer, I still say.

:)

@stephenw10 Thank you I just try in a VM I create with exactly the same version and setting of my pfsense...

My goal is to make my 10G network card working on the pfsense

I have the chance (now, was not the case before) to have 10G internet access 😊

So I 'll try with a freebsd with the same kernel and see

@stephenw10 said in Any new hardware planned for 2025?:

You would want to use the GPON/XPON SFP module dircetly? At 1G or some higher speed?

Yes - these boxes needs to be able to terminate fiber connections directly as the last thing I/we need is another router/bridge in front that can also cause issues or break.

I only wrote 1 Gbit for the interface because I understand the cost/product segmentation issue with the 2100 and 4200 on either side of it.
But obviously I would MUCH prefer a 2.5Gbit Dual Identity interface if possible as that would enable XPON capabilites and performance :-)

I'm crossing my fingers for such a product :-)

We are using a 10G Broadcom P210TP with pfSense 2.7.2, no issue so far.

@andrew_cb said in Concerns and feedback about storage lifetime wearout on Netgate devices:

I've seen various mentions of needing to "take it easy" on the onboard eMMC. This is also mentioned on the documentation for some packages, but generally there are no guidelines on how much of an impact packages have on storage lifetime.

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/189820/how-do-i-find-out-what-write-continuously-on-my-pfsense-ssd/

Yes, the Power On hours is incorrect and seems to be an issue in the SMART value reporting as it matches the number Stephen reported above exactly on a test system.

The firewall has been up since I put it in April 2023. Only reboots for pfSense upgrades.

@v16v It hard to say, where the BIOS chip is on that board is tbh.

Regards

@kenw as mentioned by @keyser even if you could shave off a few watts - is it worth the risk that might come with instability? Your not talking from going from 100w to 10w, lets say you could save 2 watts.

In the big picture at say 15 cents per kwh.. Do the math.. Your talking like $2.63 over the year..

And you might be below that or even if you were paying 50 cents a kwh your only talking $8.77 over the year..

This cost savings are in no way worth any effort even, or the risk of problems.

Now if you were talking say changing some hardware or whatever and went from 150W to 10 watts.. So a savings of like 180 dollars a year.. Hey such a savings might be worth even changing hardware - because you might recoup the cost of the new hardware in a few years.

Ah, nice. Yes some modems only support some variables there.

Ah, well it could be an error coming back from the server side then. I guess they have changed the allowed methods. Assuming your login is still valid.

If you have a CPU with QAT on-board then you might as well enable it. If you're considering adding QAT hardware then almost certainly not worth it IMO.

Quick update to anyone stumbling on this:
The reboots kept coming in an irregular way. What seemed to help was reducing the number of feeds for pfBlockerNG (even though memory did not seem to be the probelm). At some point I installed 24.11 RC and then 24.11 final. That seemed to finally do the trick: I had an uptime of some 9 days.

For me the issue is closed, since I recently upgraded to a SG-2100 that I was able to get for a good price. Interestingly even though memory never seemd to be the problem now I see the CPU also running at a lower average (.2 vs .5 before).

@coxhaus exactly - sure you can pick some older models for good prices on ebay, etc.. But yup loud and love to suck the electron juice ;)

Only way I could see running them is in a true lab, where they are only one while you actually lab something..

I just installed some older 3850's in a branch office - and kind of felt bad, you could hear them out in the office ;) But my boss said that's a facilities issue.. they can sound proof the room or move them to somewhere else in the office, but this is where they told us to install them.. And that is where all the current drops go too, etc.

@patient0 I would image yes, but my guess would be that you would see a very little return/difference in practice. Although I don’t really know the particulars of UFS’s behaviour, I’m guessing it will have almost the same tendencies as ZFS when used in pfSense.
In pfSense most/almost all of the diskwrites done over time is not overwrites of already allocated blocks within existing files, but rather appending blocks to an existing file (growing/rotating logfiles). So the filesystem should have a particular allocation preference to use previously allocated but now released blocks over new vanilla blocks. My guess is UFS like most other FS’s does not have such a preference/policy, and consequently it will slowly write to almost all FS blocks within the LUN.

Hmm, that does start to look like a NIC issue then if it fails the same way with the Linux driver.

@chrcoluk said in Topton N100 Reporting 402 MHz:

@binhex01 The servethehome instructions say to use the bios you uploaded inside another ISO, that ISO is to be downloaded from another link (which is now dead), sorry I just checked the readme again and that doesnt use the ISO, so I will try that after I verify I have the right board.

Yes, just to confirm the ISO was only used as a means to extract the utilities required to flash the bios (not the bios itself), this has been done for you and is all included in the zip, so you should be good to go (once verified you have the correct board).

Yup because the modules are now included. The device is recognised by default.

Quick follow up... I swapped the X710-T4L for an X550-T2 a little over 3 months ago and the system has been rock solid ever since. No problems at all. It seems it was either a bad NIC or a driver problem, unfortunately I'm not planning to test with a different X710 any time soon.