Yes, I don't know what the difference is between the revisions but they all look like Portwell boxes. I would expect pfSense to run an any of them really.

So I just seen the sticky that this would probably be better in another sub-forum, please let me know if I need to make another thread elsewhere

Thanks Gents, Having the bios password proved to be a game changer. My previous experience with a firebox M400 required opening the case to add an SSD with a working pfsense installation and flashing a Lanner unlocked bios.
By contrast, the M570 install was absolutely painless, and I was successfully able to install pfsense after booting from a USB flash drive. I did have to get into the bios to enable USB booting and modifying the boot drive priority. I was planning to swap out the processor for a low power Xeon but I'll let that project sit on the back burner for now.
Many Thanks!

@stephenw10 yep LAN still at 100 no matter which port.
Even assigning lan to the on board NIC, it negotiates to 1000, but the connection is crashing and giving me other issues, I’m thinking possibly because it’s a Realtek controller. So that’s not even an option now.

Lol yes both interfaces are set to default/auto select. I wish that were the issue at this point!

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@stephenw10 said in Its possible install pfSense on Sbx-166lhge-2?:

Ah, looks like it's MIPS so not supported. Also it's from 2004 and has pretty low specs (170MHz CPU with 64MB RAM and 16MB flash) so could never support current pfSense.

Steve

Thanks a lot.

Topic solved.

All the best.

The hn(4) altq setting only affects hn NICs so does nothing to igc.

You may see some advantage enabling LRO depending on the traffic you are passing.

@macmichael01 said in Is it possible to install pi-hole along side of pfsense on my netgate 1100:

I have a netgate 1100 gateway and was wondering if it's at all possible to install pi-hole along side with pfsense.

Yepp

I just set the pfSense DHCP (DNS Option) to point to my Pihole.
Then i can control if i want Pihole used - Per vlan (I only use it on my Phone , Guest & MMedia vlans)

You could also let "pfSense Unbound" use it , and make Pihole be used globally.

I imagine the hardware is compatible, would say go ahead and give it a shot and see how it goes.

@stephenw10

You may have caught this thread:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/183123/23-09d-is-qat-broken/42?_=1696239799286

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The SG-1000 and SG-2220 are limited by their CPUs not the NIC link speed. You might be able to get slightly more with some tuning but neither will ever come close to an 8200(?).

Steve

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Some of those mesh devices can only work in full 'mesh' mode when they are also acting as a router. You don't want that, you want pfSense to be the only router and the APs to be pure layer 2 devices.

Other than that any AP should work. Personally I would always choose something that can run OpenWRT if possible. I've been running those for years and am spoiled by the flexibility that offers. 😉 But if you have a lot of APs across numerous sites you probably want some commercial offering.

@Phizix Thank you for your kind compliment...with the plastic still on the Dell logo, your kids are right...very noice indeed!

I don't need reboot to reconnect, just wait a moment.

Another model reference.

The Sophos SG 115w (rev 2) - Intel E3827 (@ 1.74GHz), 4GB DDR3L, and 64GB SSD (SATA 6Gbps).

Bios adjustments

change boot order so usb stick is first disable the 60/40 emulation changed the comm port speed to 115200

Installed the pfSense v2.7 CE memstick build without any complaints.

eth0 = wan
eth1 = lan
eth2 = OPT1
eth3 = OPT2
ath0 = Wireless

Only issue I had with the few units was the cmos battery needed to be re-taped down, otherwise no issues.

Not in that mode I don't think there is. Unless the modem itself has a mgmt interface you can access. Windows almost certainly does it via an mbim interface and FreeBSD doesn't support that.

Got it, Thank you @stephenw10

You're workaround also fixed the issue for me!

The issue on my machine was not because of manual disconnects; it was when probably renewing DHCP every 24h. Sometimes it would not come back online and it would give:

« CHAT: The modem is not responding to "AT" at ModemCmd: label. »

Error in log.

power_off and power_on solved it without having to reboot the whole machine. Seems like for some reason /dev/cuaU0.2 was locked also but it doesn't appear in the logs.