Hardware

• 

  Official pfSense hardware board
  • ivor  

  1
  0
  Votes
  1
  Posts
  12323
  Views

  No one has replied

• M

  Front LCD panel that looks like Ubiquiti USG-XG-8 ?
  • madmontero  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  87
  Views

  M

  Ok thanks, I know Grafana pretty well and use it for data logging other items and solar stuff on my house but I just like how quick and responsive the XG-8's display is. Pretty much real-time. Maybe in my "free time" (lol) I'll start another project and try to design something that looks like it. I just need to find a cool OLED panel or something that's close to it.
• C

  What is this board??? Help!
  • ChrisMontrose  

  10
  0
  Votes
  10
  Posts
  222
  Views

  

  Ha! Well there's always a chance. Getting the NICs to recognise new PHYs can be.... challenging! As can configuring the switch, which would be all command line in CE. I would think there's a good chance of getting OpenWRT up on it though. Better on their forum for that. Getting those chip IDs would be the first step. You might also try a 2.5 snapshot. The FreeBSD 12 drivers probably support more PHY combinations. Steve
• C

  Unexpectedly high writes
  • chrcoluk  

  2
  0
  Votes
  2
  Posts
  24
  Views

  

  Split this off as that other topic was both waaay old and has misinformation in it. That does seem like a much higher write value that I would expect. Do you remember which version you originally installed on that drive? Have you reinstalled any other version since? Can we see the output of mount -p ? Steve
• P

  Hardware suggestion for Pfsense with OpenVPN client
  • Plugje  

  4
  0
  Votes
  4
  Posts
  72
  Views

  

  Well the J1900 is pretty poor at single thread performance and also is 5 years old. The N3150 is a very low power laptop CPU. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Phenom-II-X4-965-vs-Intel-Celeron-J1900-vs-Intel-Celeron-N3150/370vs2131vs2546 I should have specified almost any recent desktop/server CPU Steve
• F

  Hardware Advice
  • froussy  

  5
  0
  Votes
  5
  Posts
  86
  Views

  F

  @stephenw10 That is for my test site (home).. because in our store directly i will always use branded hardware.
• P

  Watchguard X750e with pfSense 2.3.4 NIC LED-Fix available!
  • pfworker79  

  10
  0
  Votes
  10
  Posts
  1050
  Views

  

  @jlibs The lights should still blink with traffic. If they do absolutely nothing then your box probably has problems.. Since they quit making those close to ten years ago they are getting very old at this point.
• K

  Watchguard XTM 5 Series
  • kmeyntz  

  870
  0
  Votes
  870
  Posts
  230252
  Views

  T

  @dlucas46 said in Watchguard XTM 5 Series: @travishauch here you go: coretemp2.zip Extract the file and upload to /boot/modules as described in previous post. You do not need to rename the file this time. Thank you so much! You are a life saver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• M

  Pfsense+openVpn And maybe Vlan
  • M3k5  

  6
  0
  Votes
  6
  Posts
  43
  Views

  

  OpenVPN is single threaded so, for a single tunnel, you need a CPU with the fastest single thread performance you can get. I'm not sure I've seen anyone hit 1Gbps on a single tunnel, but I have not been following that closely. There are a number of threads here discussing it. It is possible to setup multiple tunnels and load-balance between them. That only helps if your traffic across the tunnel is multiple connections of course. All that assumes whatever you're connecting to can actually pass that too. Steve
• M

  Cores VS Clock Speed
  • MarkPla7z  

  8
  0
  Votes
  8
  Posts
  108
  Views

  

  Not sure I understand the question... 8 cores will likely be sufficient, in terms of number of cores, for whatever you might do. Either of those will be more than enough for firewall/NAT at 1Gbps. OpenVPN will be by far your largest user of CPU cycles if you're using that. Steve
• M

  10gbit pfsense
  • marcvb  

  11
  0
  Votes
  11
  Posts
  290
  Views

  

  Ah, fun! Thanks for coming back with that. Steve
• P

  D-Link DWM-157 USB Stock not recognized
  • peoples  

  39
  0
  Votes
  39
  Posts
  3368
  Views

  

  I personally have a Sierra em7305. It's an internal m.2 card but usb connected. That provides serial ports. I get 20-30Mbps over it. The newer em7455 also works fine. Hard to recommend anything I don't actually use myself. Other than that external Ethernet connected modems are generally much easier to deal with like the Netgear lb1120. Steve
• C

  Intel IX only using single queue
  • ChrisPSD  

  11
  0
  Votes
  11
  Posts
  68
  Views

  C

  Yes, it's now showing correctly as MSI-X. dmesg output below for completeness: ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 3.2.12-k> port 0x4000-0x401f mem 0xfd300000-0xfd3fffff,0xfd4fc000-0xfd4fffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3 ix0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 9 vectors ix0: Ethernet address: 48:df:37:01:b8:e4 ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Unknown ix0: netmap queues/slots: TX 8/2048, RX 8/2048 Thanks again for your help.
• T

  Does the intel management engine make any firewall less effective?
  • tman904  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  59
  Views

  T

  Sure makes sense, but what about a box made with off the shelf hardware server grade even? Rather if you can't disable is it a huge security hole?
• C

  Dell poweredge 1950 and AES-NI
  poweredge aes-n aes-ni • • Calvin_baank  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  86
  Views

  

  Yeah, it will run fine but also consume a lot of power and make a lot of noise. Steve
• I

  What to do with a second drive (HDD)?
  • imthenachoman  

  6
  0
  Votes
  6
  Posts
  108
  Views

  I

  Got it. Thanks guys. I think I'll just leave it be then.
• V

  pfSense & Xeon D-2100
  • vokys  

  5
  0
  Votes
  5
  Posts
  213
  Views

  V

  @JeGr 1Gbps at both sites. 500Mbps on the C3558 is relativley higher than I've seen reported elsewhere.
• R

  Watchguard Firebox M400
  • revsie  

  175
  0
  Votes
  175
  Posts
  16391
  Views

  

  Yes, sorry, that worked fine after going through it initialization routine because the cmos was cleared. Steve
• M

  pfsense on Turris Omnia
  • MacGyves  

  4
  0
  Votes
  4
  Posts
  147
  Views

  

  I doubt it unfortunately. Now that we have ported to our own ARM hardware there is a lot less reason to carry another device along with all the additional coding and testing that implies. If FreeBSD was already running on it that is reduced but it still adds a lot of work for us to maintain. Steve
• R

  APU2 Crashing
  • rustydusty1717  

  32
  0
  Votes
  32
  Posts
  247
  Views

  R

  @Gertjan said in APU2 Crashing: @rustydusty1717 said in APU2 Crashing: Just an update: Got a replacement board sent, put in another new mSATA drive, updated firmware to 4.0.25 and install pfsense 2.4.4p1 and so far knock on wood I have 10 hours of up-time. Is it normal for the board itself to beep every time I log into the webGUI? According to the doc Docs » pfSense » Hardware » Disabling Sounds/Beeps , yes ... ;) It's actually a user setting, enabled by default. But the beep is fine, it confirms you login was successfully. When it starts to beep with you doing something else, well .... that's when things become interesting. Yes, the last one was beeping continually which I kind of figured was never a good thing.
• T

  pfSense and AMD EPYC Based Systems
  • tman222  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  105
  Views

  

  I would start by checking the FreeBSD forums and mailing lists for reports. Steve
• R

  Run A1SRi-2558F Headless?
  • roroeow7  

  4
  0
  Votes
  4
  Posts
  77
  Views

  B

  Have you tried loading default settings in bios? Got a Supermicro A1SAi-2550f which i use as a NAS but i have been using it with pfsense at one point without problems with no monitor.
• C

  bandwidth shaping on multiple Chelsio cards helpful?
  • CuteBoi  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  60
  Views

  C

  @tman222 Use case? +9k active users(pipes2) on 28k devices (macs2). But I can only shape about 3k devices(macs*2) actively under 1.5gbps before I hit bottlenecks. I divide the residents depending on usage patterns on all the APs, and then centralize them via vlans to different pfSense servers acting as bridges. I monitor them. each resident has a pair of pipes, and it's shared between his devices that hit at least each pfSense gateway. I'm trying to centralize it further, but I don't know if adding more NICs and processors would help alleviate the interrupts. The logic says yes. After reading this, it seems like if I add more cores and more NICs, it should work, but papers don't normally guarantee that current OS's work the same as detailed. I guess I have to try: https://www.net.in.tum.de/fileadmin/bibtex/publications/papers/MMBnet15-2.pdf
• M

  Are These Specs Good Enough and Does CPU clock Speed Matter
  • MarkPla7z  

  10
  0
  Votes
  10
  Posts
  177
  Views

  C

  Just an FYI. IF the NAS and your PC are on the same network segment, they will never touch the pfSense interfaces. Only if the NAS and PC are using the Router as a gateway will you need that interface speed. It's nice to have a 10gbps in case you have different networks needing it. But typically folks keep their storage on a dedicated network not crossing their gateways.
• A

  pfSense on dual cpu server (Dell Poweredge)
  • az  

  17
  0
  Votes
  17
  Posts
  128
  Views

  A

  This has been an awesome first experience with forums. Just wanted to thank all of you for an awesome introduction into the community.
• P

  Can I use a PCI-e v2.0 network card in a PCI-e v1.1 slot?
  • provels  

  5
  0
  Votes
  5
  Posts
  83
  Views

  P

  @tman222 Thanks. I ended up ordering the IBM version from Ebay. Using virtualization now, but should be good if I end up going back to a physical box, too.
• 

  No love for PC Engines anymore?
  • valnar  

  31
  0
  Votes
  31
  Posts
  9594
  Views

  

  Hello, my name is Danail Lazarov from Bulgaria, Varna and I am a chief networking specialist at Rodnilb company, which has been working since 2000 to build networks and supply Internet services on the territory of Varna and the region. Since 2005, our company has been working with the wireless networking equipment of the Swiss company "PC Engines" as well as with the equipment of the Latvian company "Mikrotik" and the equipment of the American company "Ubiquiti", as we have built our communications networks (5GHz), and what I would like to share here with you are our personal observations regarding the quality of both the hardware produced and offered by these three leading companies as well as their support, fidelity and honesty to their clients. What made me extremely impressed was the incredible operational endurance of "PC Engines" products, their high-quality craftsmanship and impeccable loyalty to their customers who have already chosen to work with the company's products in their business. Their devices from the "WRAP" series last for almost 14 years almost continuous work, without giving any defects! It's just amazing and really worthy of praise and recommendation! These devices do not inflate an electrolytic capacitor! They are simply iron, designed and calculated perfectly for decades of operation. We have dozens of them installed on the roofs of different buildings in Varna and for years we do not go to service them because they just work flawlessly! The same applies to the newer models of the "ALIX" series that we have been using since 2010, and so far they have performed well as their predecessors in the "WRAP" series. And when something happens to some of the products of "PC Engines", its clients can be calm because they will get full assistance in solving the problem, but this action is unfortunately not the case with "Mikrotik" which leaves its customers to deal with the problems of their products. With "Ubiquiti", the situation is the same as in the case of "Mikrotik", but slightly better, but in the first place, honesty, quality and durability are "PC Engines". Prominent Swiss precision, accuracy and loyalty are fully applied in the company policy of "PC Engines"! The Company "PC Engines" deserve this praise and this comment because they are just unique! For so many years I've never met such a company!
• 1

  pfSense box advice
  • 1druid1  

  17
  0
  Votes
  17
  Posts
  530
  Views

  

  @rebi said in pfSense box advice: BTW since pfSense now supports ARM, it might be possible to be installed on a Raspberry PI (never dug into the topic, it's just an idea) No it isn't. The two devices with ARM have custom images. There is no "generic ARM" image for pfSense. Sorry. Besides, a RasPi is a really bad choice for routing.
• T

  Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release
  • TheNarc  

  40
  4
  Votes
  40
  Posts
  3439
  Views

  T

  @TheNarc said in Official Realtek Driver Binary 1.95 For 2.4.4 Release: CI323 What I experienced, using the driver built into pfsense on Cl323, is that there will be watchdog timeouts frequently; but eventually the LAN interface will quite working completely until someone reboots the box. After installing the realtek driver 1.95 as described in this thread, those issues are no more and the box is stable. If you are deploying pfsense on CI323, I'd strongly reccommend this driver and that stress testing the network is part of your checklist.
• F

  Broadcom NIC fails to connect -Dell 210 ii
  • fin1000  

  4
  0
  Votes
  4
  Posts
  75
  Views

  

  If the client gets an IP address via dhcp but can't make any connections otherwise it's almost always because there's no firewall rule on the interface to allow it. So either there simply are no rules (the default) or the rules haven't been applied or less likely they cannot be applied for some reason. If you rebooted and it started working they probably just hadn't been applied. Steve
• R

  SFP network cards?
  • roroeow7  

  4
  0
  Votes
  4
  Posts
  129
  Views

  T

  SFP modules should generally work on SFP+ cards (and just operate at 1Gbit speeds), but I'm sure there are some exceptions out there (e.g. SFP+ cards that only support 10Gbit and not 1/10Gbit). I'd take a look around first and see if you can find a good SFP card (though there is a decent chance it will be used, e.g. check out Ebay). If not, consider just getting a SFP+ card and using SFP modules (there should be more availability and ability to buy new if you want). As @stephenw10 already mentioned, both Intel and Chelsio cards work very well with FreeBSD (and hence pfSense). Hope this helps.
• L

  Swapping network card
  • lovingHDTV  

  5
  0
  Votes
  5
  Posts
  83
  Views

  L

  Bought one of these off ebay. Seems to work perfectly. Dell 0HM9JY david
• I

  mini ITX motherboard with multiple NICs supporting newer Intel chips with AES
  • imthenachoman  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  380
  Views

  I

  This is great. Thank you so much!
• D

  PFS on a checkpoint 2200
  • Dr3K0  

  23
  0
  Votes
  23
  Posts
  3900
  Views

  

  It's really old at this point. It would have to be very cheap or something that you are doing for the experience in my opinion. But you probably can install to it. Checkpoints other devices were not locked to prevent it on those I have seen. You may well need to swap out the boot media, I have no idea what that boots from but Nano no longer exists since this thread was started. Steve
• B

  Returning user needs a new pfSense box!
  • bluepr0  

  16
  0
  Votes
  16
  Posts
  873
  Views

  B

  Hello! I thought I should update this thread on what I've finally settled after trying a few different routes. First I tried to go the official way, which ended up being super expensive if you live in Spain. There's some more accesible options on Germany through Voleatech but still quite a bit with the power you get. Don't get me wrong, this would be the perfect option if this was a mission critical equipment, but this is just for my home network. Then I tried going the virtualisation route but I found some problems and/or limitations with KVM when trying to route gigabit speeds. I'm currently on 500/500 but pretty sure in a few years from now we will have 1000/1000 as my ISP has been almost duplicating speed between 2-3 years. Not so future-proof. Also was a bit of a pain in the ass if I had to do stuff on the server that my internet will be also off. And finally arrived to what I think it will be the perfect solution, yes you guessed it: bare-metal installation. I had lying around a cheap PC I built last year for my crypto miner project: Asus prime z270-p + Intel G4400 + 4gb RAM (that was around 160€ new). I'm going to add a SF450 PSU, SSD next week but already got the Intel i350-t4. Power consumption currently is around 28w on idle and 35 when routing gigabit with ntop, suricata, pfBlockerNG and a few more). Should be a bit less when I receive the SSD, currently is on HDD. Hope this could be helpful for someone else looking at build its own pfSense box. I will update with final numbers once I've all in place. Maybe even some pics! Thanks :)
• F

  Pfsense won't recognize network card
  • firefox  

  39
  0
  Votes
  39
  Posts
  5060
  Views

  P

  Are you still facing this issue? Try fake credit card numbers that work for online shopping. It might help you.
• M

  Limited Options in GUI, No SSH, Box died
  • MoTheMighty  

  3
  0
  Votes
  3
  Posts
  55
  Views

  M

  Stephen, I appreciate you taking the time to reach out. I will have to check this out in the morning as I seem to have accidentally migrated the giant box of USB cables to my business' storage unit. However, in the event that the drive is bad, I wonder if Netgate has access to a replacement module that I can re-solder to the board. All-in-all, I'm quite impressed with the quality of the PCB that Netgate uses. Thank you, ~Morgan
• D

  PC Engines apu2 experiences
  • dugeem  

  263
  0
  Votes
  263
  Posts
  70926
  Views

  

  @Veldkornet said in PC Engines apu2 experiences: Is anyone using the CoDel / FQ_CoDel Traffic Shaping on the APU2? Working well? Any problems? I have an APU2 box at work to provide a separate network for personal devices. It is setup with the FQ_CoDel limiter / floating rules method described towards the end of the Playing with FQ-CoDel Thread. It has been rock solid and seems to provide equal bandwidth sharing for the 30 - 50 devices connected each day and 16 - 20 GB of traffic that is passed on our 150/150 FiOS link.
• J

  cd0: Attempt to query device size failed :NO READY. Pfsense 2.4.4 no boot ini disk.
  • j.sejo1  

  6
  0
  Votes
  6
  Posts
  56
  Views

  

  Need to see the boot log then at least. I can't think of any reason an empty optical drive would do that. Steve
• H

  New PfSense Build
  • homerjay84  

  8
  0
  Votes
  8
  Posts
  373
  Views

  

  Read through the whole thread to get the full low-down https://forum.netgate.com/topic/39639/watchguard-xtm-5-series Steve