I believe that even if you do get pfSense running on the RCC-VE 2440 from Netgate, you do not gain the Intel QuickAssist technology - I could be mistaken as this seems to be a bit of a vague/grey area but I think that driver does not exist in the community version of the firmware (?) and you only get it if you buy your appliance from the pfSense Store. Hope I am wrong but … ? ???
FreeBSD is not Linux, but if there is a new Linux kernel set, to support and use the Intel QuickAssist
technology, it could really be that someone must before that we all can use this writing code using the from
Intel offered API for this new technology. So why now the question FreeBSD and also on top pfSense should
not be profiting from that? Either by going with a brand new netgate, pfSense or a Supermicro board?
Intel has published a new Linux kernel patch-set that adds Quick Assist Technology support to Linux along with a driver to handle their …
i see. not sure if netgate installs pfsense on the rcc-ve-2440. their webpage states if one wants that then to goto pfsense and buy their appliance and support. i certainly could have read that incorrectly though. i know for the APUr unit it will come with pfsense installed.
As shown on their website it will be shipped with CentOS 7.1 on the nand storage, eMMC, but if you want
to get your box pre installed with pfSense it will be also installed on the eMMC storage! Only if you will be
getting a mSATA extra they install it on this medium!
there is a cost diff for my personal funds but supporting pfsense is a good thing to do too. it is a top notch firewall. i'll check with netgate this week and get low down on if they actually install pfsense on these
new rcc-ve-2440.
Ok this is something each of us must decide by it selfs.
interesting point about the Intel QA tech. not even sure i would even need that as this is for home use, more insurance is probably a good thing.
AES-NI and intel QuickAssist would be speeding up some things like snort, suricata,
compression and encryption. For those small Atom CPUs it would be a real benefit related to the
faster and bigger Internet lines.
i see the concerns & issues that you brought up at this link:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=91870.0
The same thinking fals as I see it, if someone get those appliances pre installed with CentOS or pfSense
the entire OS will be installed on the eMMC storage, really ready to go! Only if he wants to install on another
medium it would be installed there, so in my eyes it is not a wasted part of the unit.
But getting the CentOS on the eMMC and then installing pfSense on the mSATA but no want to wipe
out the CentOS and if this is causing trouble pfSense team or netgate should be wrong is in my eyes
not a real problem of them but more of the user it selfs.
i too find it a bit odd that the eMMC isn't used for the OS and a SSD for say snort, squid, backups, etc? but this is CentOS and not nanoBSD, ?, and maybe that makes a difference.
It is like the older days, but there nobody was complaining!!!! if you install pfSense on a CFCard that is
mounted read only, you cant use squid + squidguard + av scann and snort together! You will need a
HDD/SSD or mSATA for the caching procedure at all. And this would be also not really matching on the
eMMC because on the read/write cycles and it is better in performance like the old CFCards, but the mSATA
is able to be changed if failing.
but for home use, i don't want to have to be reconfiguring after every upgrade either. not sure i even have the skills for that these days.
Then perhaps the Alix APU platform is the right thing for you! Could this be? There you get no nand storage
soldered on board and a SATA or mSATA is a must be.
it won't stop me from buying the unit, just seems kinda odd about the eMMC not being used at all while i'm contemplating the extra storage option of 30GB or 128GB.
And what would be the alternative? Without eMMC you must buy a mSATA or industrial CFCard as
in the older days and if one is failing or burned you need also another one.