If you are really unsure, I would go with the M350 because this is 1000 times used to build a small
router or firewall with success by many customers or users. You can´t anything wrong with it.

Wise advice - I'll order the kit tomorrow !

No you shouldn't be concerned.

We have 320's being brutalized as zfs-cache drives in "el-cheapo" archive servers and even with that workload they're handling that very well in the scope of being a consumer drive.

@ddaniel51:
Always take the erase-block-size of 256 pages (of 8k) into account. A block write on a ssd is not simply a written block as it is on a harddrive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_amplification

There is no WiFi ac support in pfsense at this time.

That didn't change between 2.2.5 and 2.2.6, there are no driver changes between those. The linked FreeBSD bug dates back 4 years. Your best bet, outside of getting better quality hardware, is trying 2.3 since Pyun noted there were improvements in FreeBSD 10.2.

@BlueKobold:

Don´t spend $4500 for this!

pfSense-store XG-1540 pfSense appliance

with Chelsio dual 10 GbE NIC (LAN usage) fully offload VLANs ~$3050 with Chelsio dual 10 GbE NIC (WAN usage) fully offload NAT ~$3598

Would be in my eyes a really better deal for your company as you will be going by hardware
from Dell. This might be more network related and is 100% running pfSense. Only my 2 cents.

Thank you for your reply!
The problem is that my company is located in Denmark, so if i purchase a box from pfSense, which will be shipped from the US i would have to pay import taxes in Denmark, and then the box would cost me $4500 anyways.

The plan is to run a 4gbit through our new firewall as a start, so the Dell server would be more than powerfull enough.
And we would be able to equip the Dell server with a Quad Port 10GbE card more if necessary.

But do you know if the aforementioned hardware would work?
I will under any circumstances consider to buy the pfSense box, so thank you for that information

Any use any of this hardware for expanding your port capabilities? Considering using a Tiny Box or Laptop with single port.

From the manual of the intel Atom C2000 (Rangeley) series from Supermicro it was be named better.
C2000 Series SoC I354 built-in Quad-port GbE control-lers (MACs) w/Marvell 88E1543 Transceiver

The LAN Ports so are definitive Intel ones (i354) and also Intel drivers would be used to run this LAN ports
and not Marvell drivers are needed.

The Marvell 88E1543 Transceiver or also called Marvell Phy or alternatively switch chip is transporting
and coordinating the data flow, but there fore no driver is needed, it works total transparent in my eyes.

Same as reported by www.servethehome.de in one of the earlier reports over the intel Atom C2000 platform
here you can read it, search the document for "Marvell", please. Link

The OS requires a driver to operate a device (i.e. NIC).

Yes this is right but the Intel LAN ports only requires an Intel driver for the Intel i354 NIC and nothing more.

IIRC A1SRi-2758F has a Marvell controller however Supermicro has an Intel driver posted on its website.

SuperMicro are the vendor and producer, they should know what was soldered on the board and what kind
of hardware is needing what kind of driver.

@RAND0M1ZER:

Those Axiomtek boxes look really nice but unfortunately availability doesn't look too great

Go to there website, have a look under resellers and go there or call them directly, I know some one here
in the forum from Germany was getting on this way during 4 - 5 work days the NA342 (J1900) for 229 €
and the NA342 with the other dual core cpu for 289 € and on both pfSense is running and performing well.

If it is a ZTE MF823 then it should work. Theoretically :)

Hi Guys

Can anyone confirm that the Sierra 320u 4G Telstra USB Dongle is compatible with Pfsense 2.2.6?

Thanks

If you have a C2758 1U appliance it could not be strange to test then the new Chelsio NIC out!!!
Perhaps one prt will fit your needs and the LAG (LACP) is not really needed.

The best bet related to the better driver support as an Intel 10 GbE NIC would be the Chelsio
at this time it would be my first choice pending on this better driver support. You could fully
offload the entire VLAN handling by using this Chelsio NIC. Would be nice as I see it.

The processor can handle 10Gbe fine…?

If not, they would not sell the XG-2758 appliance but no one knows what they have
tuned or pimped or customized for getting a smooth and liquid working 10 GbE network
This only can be answered from the pfSense developers or driver guys that where fiddling
it out or was creating the appliance.

https://store.pfsense.org/C2758/

I want to get this to replace the 4xgbit card

https://store.pfsense.org/Chelsio-T520-SO-CR/

Fine thing, so you could save your configuration and try it out, the Chelsio might be configured
to fully offload the entire VLANs. And before I would not try out anything likes a LAG (LAG) to
be sure that the LAG is not the issue maker if something is not really working.

Or something similar like intel card or whatever.  Doesn't matter, as long as it's 10Gbe and goes into the SFP+ ports in my Cisco switch.  Will make a LACP Lagg of course.

Go with the Chelsio one, it is not more expensive then another 10 GbE NIC but is better driver supported.

If nothing goes, or something can´t fiddled out by yours, I really don´t know your budget and the rest of
your network set up or pfSense usage, but then I would hold the Chelsio NIC and sell the C2758 1U appliance
at the time where one of the new Intel Xeon D-15x8 boards are out and available. They can handle 10 GbE
connections with ease. There are three launching dates for the Intel Xeon D-1500 platforms and also three
greater acting fields and 4 more detailed acting in fields! So you could also have a dedicated look on this
platforms if nothing goes really as expected. One of this appliances is not so far away from the price for
one XG-2758. But then you might be getting more choices then now, for nearly the same price.

it's a baremetal install :(

Hi,

We have changed the Lan mode to normal but no go.

We will try the beta and let you know the results also if its not ok we will submit a ticket on; https://redmine.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/issues

Thank you so much for your info. Nice on the xeon  ;D it should be a killer firewall with the specs you suggested  :P

Like this?

Yes, exactly, all custom tunings should be entered by you inside of this file, to survive the next
update or upgrade because then all files will be new written or over written.

Delay command seems unnecessary.

Cold be insertedby default or pending on other hardware, that must be recognized by the OS
at boot time, so if you have some USB gear connected to the entire pfSense box and it will be
not really recognized and enabled, this could be a really gain to give pfSense enough time to
locate and found them to load the right driver for it.

Odd as that was already in the file when I loaded it.  Must be a default.

Yes again.

They used to make PCI cards but Ive not seen any in years.

Not a good idea anyhow.  A good power bump over the coax and your router would be toast.

Besides- the lights on the modem can be pretty important to see if your troubleshooting.

Supermicro SATA-DOM?

Also a good choice this could be seen as a replacement for the older IDE-DOMs.
But there are two different models able to buy and use, so you might before buying have a closer
look to your mainboard and the needs of what kind of SATA-DOM you should go with or buy.
Supermicro SATA-DOM solutions

What a day guys…..my system died and I have to install all over from version 2.1.5 to make the 2 main NIC to work (LAN and WAN).

At the mainboard of the Jetway NF9D-2550, there´s 2 x NIC Realtek 8168/8111 (WAN and LAN) that pFsense version 2.2.6 will have driver issues with these 2. Connecting a screen at the VGA port, I will get a lot of "phy write failed", related with the drive issue.

The 3 x Daughterboard Realtek RTL8110SC (8169/8169S/8169SB(L)) NIC´s are working perfectly, the issue is with the onboar NICs.

I´m not happy going all the way to version 2.1.5 but I´m online after 3 hour of work trying to locate the source of the problem.

Any idea of after the upgrade, the since with start to outperform?...will this issue be corrected in further updates?

Thanks.

Mike.