@stephenw10 No, because my plan was to put this in my office... but that plan has now changed and it's going in a different room. Chances are I'll actually re-install the original fans for better cooling. When I do, I'll let you know what temps I get

Ah OK. Well I would try loading some of the watchdog drivers from 2.6 and see if any of them attach to hardware:
kldload wbwd

Also try ichwd itwd ftwd viawd. It depends what superio chip it has. Or if they use the watchdog in the ich.

@Cool_Corona just changed those settings, it didnt seem to have any effect

@mphodge said in Netgate 2100 micro sim + 4G LTE / 5G:

Aha! we finally have an IP address

In the interface setup you may be able to set up IPv6 = DHCP
so you may be getting also an IPv6 IP address.

And WAN interface now shows as up.

You can now set up in the WAN settings what you need, failover
or load balancing with failover.

I think connecting the correct pigtails gave enough signal strength to finally work.

You will see this by looking over the download/upload numbers.

Only problem now is the IP is private and NAT'd by the provider, so will have to request a public!

The most consumer contracts will be having this only, but often you will be able to get one together with a small business mobile phone contract.

Hmm, that's weird. Like the system idle process is not actually idling the CPU correctly. Even with no P-states you should still see higher C-states when it's mostly idle.

Try:

[24.03-RC][admin@4200.stevew.lan]/root: sysctl -a | grep cx_ hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C8 dev.cpu.3.cx_method: C1/mwait/hwc C2/mwait/hwc C3/mwait/hwc dev.cpu.3.cx_usage_counters: 9902 21795 256573 dev.cpu.3.cx_usage: 3.43% 7.56% 89.00% last 27us dev.cpu.3.cx_lowest: C8 dev.cpu.3.cx_supported: C1/1/1 C2/2/127 C3/3/1048 dev.cpu.2.cx_method: C1/mwait/hwc C2/mwait/hwc C3/mwait/hwc dev.cpu.2.cx_usage_counters: 11302 19955 186842 dev.cpu.2.cx_usage: 5.18% 9.14% 85.66% last 222us dev.cpu.2.cx_lowest: C8 dev.cpu.2.cx_supported: C1/1/1 C2/2/127 C3/3/1048 dev.cpu.1.cx_method: C1/mwait/hwc C2/mwait/hwc C3/mwait/hwc dev.cpu.1.cx_usage_counters: 10499 19988 187382 dev.cpu.1.cx_usage: 4.81% 9.17% 86.00% last 1078us dev.cpu.1.cx_lowest: C8 dev.cpu.1.cx_supported: C1/1/1 C2/2/127 C3/3/1048 dev.cpu.0.cx_method: C1/mwait/hwc C2/mwait/hwc C3/mwait/hwc dev.cpu.0.cx_usage_counters: 10625 19888 235439 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 3.99% 7.47% 88.52% last 529us dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C8 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/1/1 C2/2/127 C3/3/1048

That's a 4200 (C1110, 13W TDP, passive cooling) that supports SpeedShift and it's set to 80. It's pretty much idle. You can see the Cores are all at >80% C3.

@mikey_s said in Install PFSense on a Sophos SG appliance:

Like others on the XG230 Rev2 the LCD works fine, but the buttons are the wrong way round if I recall.

The SDEC driver was developed or the firebox hardware so the button order could well be different. It's possible to set the button mapping if you use a custom conf file with LCDproc. You'd probably have to start it outside of the GUI though.

The alternate driver still prevents some issues for some NICs and supports some additional models. The kmod pkg is in our repo now though so you can just install it from the command line directly.

@stephenw10 Yeah agreed and this is a good fix for now.
At least I fully know what is going on now as well.
It's a bit sloppy for me to go and leave an audio interface enabled.
But I figured it didn't matter as PFsense shouldn't load any drivers for the audio interface as far as I know.
This problem could come back if the BIOS is ever reset or defaulted for any reason, but I at least will know what to do in that rare event.

ASUS consumer motherboards like to mildly overclock some settings by default.
This occasionally results in a failed boot and a "hit F1" to load defaults message which would re-enable the audio.
I'm not worried about it and it will get fixed in a future update obviously.

I already knew what I was getting into building a box on a consumer AMD light gaming motherboard LOL.

Incidentally the Realtek NIC is doing great!
A little slower than the dual Intel server NIC (as expected) that is also installed.
And the Realtek is only going to be used for very rare management of the web interface and SSH.
I did put it through a series of long multi-hour high bandwidth testing to see if I could make it fail
and it did just fine before taking it out of the routing mix.
The install was planned to disable it and install another NIC if it gave any problems.

The hit was minimal and could have been far worse!

Thanks!!

@Jakub_ Sweet, this is at least a good start, appreciate the follow ups!

@lazyt

There are some of them available, but in that price range you will be better
of some of the Netgate devices but they will then 100% supported, also
1U is not even given and last but not least you don´t know how fast
they are in real.

Intel N100, RJ50k, 4 x 2.5GbE I226-V, 2 x SFP+ Optical 10Gbe 82599ES, Type-C, SIM Slot, TF, 8G RAM, 128G SSD
Intel N100 - 370 € on amazon.de
miniPC

12th Gen U300E, DDR5 8GB RAM M.2 NVMe 128GB SSD, 2 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP, 4 x i226V 2.5GbE
640 € on Amazon.de
miniPC

Pentium Gold 7505, RJ50, AES-NI, 4 x 2.5GbE I226-V, 2 x SFP+ Optical 10Gbe 82599ES, HDMI, DP, 8G RAM, 128G SSD
Intel Pentium Gold 7505 - 370 € on Amazon.de
miniPC

VPN, Router PC, Pentium Gold 8505, RJ50f, AES-NI, 4 x 2.5GbE I226-V, 2 x SFP+ Optical 10Gbe 82599ES, 8G RAM, 128G SSD
Intel Pentium Gold 8505 - 440 € on amazon.de
miniPC

13th Gen Firewall Micro Appliance, 2x10G SFP, 6X i226 2.5G LAN Fanless Mini PC Intel i5 1240P, No DDR5 No SSD, 4* USB, HDMI, DP, BIOS, AES-NI VPN Router, WiFi Slot
Intel Core i5 - 640 € on Amazon.de
miniPC

VPN, Router PC, Intel Core I7 1355U, RJ50f, AES-NI, 4 x 2.5GbE I226-V, 2 x SFP+ Optical 10Gbe 82599ES, 8G RAM, 128G SSD
Intel Core i7 - 810 € on Amazon.de
miniPC

Protectli Vault Pro VP6650-6 Port, Micro Appliance/Mini PC - i5, 2X 10G SFP+ & 4X 2.5G Ports, DDR5 RAM, M.2 NVMe or SATA SSD Storage, AES-NI, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD
Intel Core i7 - 1250 € - 16GB RAM - 250GB SSD
miniPC

Protectli Vault Pro VP6670-6 Port, Micro Appliance/Mini PC - Intel i7, 2X 10G SFP+ & 4X 2.5G Ports, DDR5 RAM, M.2 NVMe or SATA SSD Storage, AES-NI, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD
Intel Core i7 - 1500 € - 16 GB RAM - 250 GB SSD
miniPC

Supermicro SuperServer E300-9D-8CN8TP IoT Box 8-Core D-2146NT
Intel Xeon-D 2146NT - Supermicro 4 x 1 GB, 2 x GbE, 2 x SFP+ - 2300 €
1,5 U

Correct the 2100 SoC has no thermal sensors pfSense can read. There is no driver that recognises multiple devices like there is in x86. For arm each device has to be specified. The 3100 does have a readable sensor. The SG-1000 did have a sensor we could read but the values from it proved so inconsistent that we did not display it.

Hmm, yeah almost certainly that specific issue with Xen arch referenced in the other thread you posted in.

One more bit of odd behavior from this card in case anyone has any ideas: When installed in my system, which is a HP slimline desktop S01-PF1013W with a Pentium Gold G6400T, one of the RAM slots is effectively disabled. The system acts as if it has no RAM installed if only that slot is populated and has half the RAM expected available if both are populated.

I've seen this once before, with another Dell NIC, that one a Broadcom 5720 dual port 1Gbps NIC with PCIe x1. That time I never figured out that it was the RAM slot that was the culprit so I just moved ahead with a different NIC.

It's not a deal breaker as I can live with just 4GB RAM until I scrounge up an 8GB stick. Just wondering if anyone else has seen anything like this before. I never have, except with this system.

@q54e3w Thanks for all the info here, glad to hear it's working well and has been stable. I'm only considering it since I have an 8 gigabit WAN connection now.

SUCESSO!

Acabei de seguir os passos recomendados no post do @RobEmery e tive sucesso em meu hardware Dell PowerEdge R630.

PERC H330 Mini (Embedded)
Firmware Version: 25.5.9.0001
Drive Version: 4.23
HBA mode

State: Non-RAID em todos os SSDs

Muito obrigado! 👍 🙏

@mcarson75 said in i226-V not getting expected speed:

However, if I connect to the same server from pfsense I am only getting about 500 megabit:

In normal it would make more sense in my eyes, if you connect the sender
(server 1) and the receiver (server 2) to the pfSense without any switches
between the set up and then you make the test once more again.

If you will see then something between 2,3x GBit/s and count the TCP/IP
overhead on top you may be ending with nearly 2,5 GBit/s the pfSense
were able to route, because it was running pure through the pfSense
box.

@roxy Haha, so you went the "dark side" route anyways. Glad it worked out for you! Thanks for sharing all the information. I downloaded the files you shared on google drive and archived the steps you did in case I ever want to tinker further with my BIOS as well in the future. Mine is still running the original version but with seemingly different hidden default settings. Since it is performing as expected though I don't think there's much to fix with another BIOS but I really like tinkering with computers and perhaps I can save a watt or two or something (or perhaps unlock even more performance instead) if I feel like I want to tinker further.

ZFS BE snapshots are not a single file that can be moved to a different drive like that. It's every mount point that varies across snapshots:

[24.03-BETA][admin@4200.stevew.lan]/root: zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT pfSense 22.5G 84.1G 96K none pfSense/ROOT 11.8G 84.1G 96K none pfSense/ROOT/default 610M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default/cf 1M 84.1G 2.98M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default/var_cache_pkg 158M 84.1G 345M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default/var_db_pkg 2.67M 84.1G 5.77M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240312185156 816K 84.1G 1006M / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240312185156/cf 240K 84.1G 612K /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240312185156/var_cache_pkg 0B 84.1G 336M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240312185156/var_db_pkg 236K 84.1G 5.48M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240314125844 404K 84.1G 1.09G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240314125844/cf 140K 84.1G 652K /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240314125844/var_cache_pkg 8K 84.1G 326M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240314125844/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.61M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240320124022 2.50M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240320124022/cf 2.09M 84.1G 3.92M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240320124022/var_cache_pkg 8K 84.1G 351M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240320124022/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.80M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240320162729 1.37M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240320162729/cf 1.07M 84.1G 2.98M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240320162729/var_cache_pkg 8K 84.1G 345M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240320162729/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.80M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321005105 1.54M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321005105/cf 1.21M 84.1G 3.20M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321005105/var_cache_pkg 0B 84.1G 344M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321005105/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.80M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740 11.2G 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740/cf 15.4M 84.1G 5.10M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740/var_cache_pkg 2.85G 84.1G 164M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740/var_db_pkg 53.0M 84.1G 5.81M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240321134843 1.57M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240321134843/cf 1.31M 84.1G 3.45M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240321134843/var_cache_pkg 0B 84.1G 351M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240321134843/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.78M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240322112248 2.14M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240322112248/cf 1.84M 84.1G 4.10M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240322112248/var_cache_pkg 8K 84.1G 351M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240322112248/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.80M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240324183950 2.07M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240324183950/cf 1.79M 84.1G 4.13M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240324183950/var_cache_pkg 0B 84.1G 350M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240324183950/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.80M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240326193340 2.32M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240326193340/cf 2.02M 84.1G 4.43M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240326193340/var_cache_pkg 8K 84.1G 164M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240326193340/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.80M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240327173457 2.03M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240327173457/cf 1.80M 84.1G 4.43M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240327173457/var_cache_pkg 0B 84.1G 165M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240327173457/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.81M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240328133819 1.89M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240328133819/cf 1.60M 84.1G 4.60M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240328133819/var_cache_pkg 0B 84.1G 164M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240328133819/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.80M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240329164243 1.74M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240329164243/cf 1.46M 84.1G 4.66M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240329164243/var_cache_pkg 0B 84.1G 164M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240329164243/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.81M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240401140534 2.19M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240401140534/cf 1.87M 84.1G 5.18M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240401140534/var_cache_pkg 8K 84.1G 164M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240401140534/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.82M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240402144839 1.99M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240402144839/cf 1.76M 84.1G 5.26M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240402144839/var_cache_pkg 0B 84.1G 165M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240402144839/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.82M /var/db/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240403152155 2.07M 84.1G 1.13G / pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240403152155/cf 1.77M 84.1G 5.39M /cf pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240403152155/var_cache_pkg 0B 84.1G 165M /var/cache/pkg pfSense/ROOT/default_20240321123740_20240403152155/var_db_pkg 8K 84.1G 5.80M /var/db/pkg pfSense/home 108K 84.1G 108K /home pfSense/reservation 96K 94.8G 96K none pfSense/tmp 120K 84.1G 120K /tmp pfSense/var 2.65M 84.1G 292K /var pfSense/var/cache 96K 84.1G 96K /var/cache pfSense/var/db 1.31M 84.1G 1.31M /var/db pfSense/var/log 876K 84.1G 876K /var/log pfSense/var/tmp 104K 84.1G 104K /var/tmp

Hmm, seems like that device might be in some odd mode then. The virtual CD drive function doesn't require any sort of driver. The USB ID implies it should be there but isn't for some reason.

I would check it in Windows. If it has some setup utility make sure it hasn't been set with something odd.