definitely low profile (but only comes with full size bracket)
http://www.microbarn.com/details.aspx?rid=101626
ar5212 chip. I picked up 3 of these a few weeks back, work great with pfsense.

and honestly I dnno why it is so fewkin' hard to buy the short brackets separately + easily + inexpensively. the only times I have ever seen them is either bundled with vga cards or very expensive raid cards.

No, the local console is always logged in. The only option you have is to disable it completely at system>advanced.

Btw, there is already a freenas package in work for pfsense.

I can't say that I've ever done any testing, but PCMCIA shouldn't provide any performance limitations with a 700 MHz CPU. Your CPU is likely to be your first bottleneck, probably somewhere around 60-100 Mb.

ok, thanks

thanks for the reply dotdash.  yes i cannot connect everything to my current gigabit switch located on the living room.  cabling problems basically.  so i will still need another gigabit switch in the office to connect fileserver and any other host(s).

It looks like it is supported.

http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?id=40

Hardware vendors "Hacom" states that it works.

I probe this driver but don't work.
Only work the driver what i post above, but only in infrastructure mode, in access point mode don't work  :-\

Thank you for answer

I don't see anything that stands out that will keep you from running pfSense. I would say download it and give it a try. You can boot into the CD without installing anything and that will tell you if pfSense will work on your laptop.

I fixed a bug in this area recently.  Upgrade to a recent snapshot and select the option hoba suggested.

Yes, and prices actually seem to be in the same range as the old boards. Dimensions and outlets seem to be compatible to the old cases as well. Mr Dornier from PC-Engines will provide us with a board to make pfSense run smooth on it so you most likely will see this one supported by pfSense right when they become available.

It works great !!
Even if I managed to generate 4000 connections (port scanning) the router shows as max as 5% CPU usage … and no more than 30% memory used.
Keep up the good work :)!!

It's a problem about UDMA.

Take a look at the "Disable DMA for IDE drives" Section of this page.

http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootOptions

Then you will install pfSense without problems (you should change /boot/loader.conf)

When system has started, you can activate DMA with "atacontrol". Be careful with the mode you use.

Greetings

Roberto

Iperf Results, Polling Disabled
Vmstat Results, Polling Disabled
Iperf & Vmstat results, Polling Enabled
Iperf results to 127.0.0.1 on the 450Mhz PC

If its only doing 40-50Mbs to 127.0.0.1, I have a feeling the NICs arnt the problem though I could be wrong.

I just ran this under vmware on my older 1.8Ghz pc (XP SP2 as the host-OS, pfsense installed in vmware). 700-800Mb/s to 127.0.0.1, and 80-95Mbs over Vmwares 10/100 ethernet adapter to my other pc, cpu load pegged at 100%.

With thas images, the hardware works.

Thanks.

Ángel.

Ok, I'm an idiot.  Following this thread http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,3877.0.html I simply pointed a web browser to the default IP, and got in and finished the config from there.

Bottom line:  Follow the two threads I linked to, and you should be up and running in no time.

@sullrich:

Maybe power management.

I can live without that.

thanks again.

Just a thought, could those massively delayed packets be retransmits caused by the state table in your firewall overflowing? (well technically just filling up and waiting for connections to timeout in the state table).