Since my internet speed is capped at 100mbps, I don't need gigabit speeds for this NIC. Is this a good choice? If not any other recommended ones?

But please don´t forget that you will be even speaking about real and theoretical "speed"!

A 100 MBit/s card is serving something around 80 MBit/s like an older Alix Board (not the APU) A 1 GBit/s card is really able to delivers something around 450 to 750 and more and there for I
would consider to go with a 1 GBit/s network card.

Yeah so isn't "server-grade" NICs more reliable than standard consumer NICs?

For sure, but not in all scenarios and fields! Server NICs or hardware often comes with a so called
digital signal processor soldered on the NIC, and is there fore taking much load from the CPU.

I would still expect server hardware to cost more than consumer-grade hardware.

Consumer NIC = small onboard soldered Chip for the network parities
Server NIC = Digital signal processor onboard soldered

The chip can do less and is less expensive too.

http://www.cnet.com/products/nortel-switched-firewall-director-5016-firewall-eb1639130e5/specs/

if it is an x86 cpu, it should work. seems a bit dated, but the price is right @ 60$

I would spend a bit more and go the gigabyte q1900 route instead

Bump'd.

@robi:

If you want to use ipsec, look in the other threads first, because it seems to be broken in v2.2.3.

AES-NI module is broken, not IPsec itself. If you disable AES-NI you can use AES in P2. Or you can switch to AES-GCM without disabling AES-NI module. Will be fixed in 2.2.4 though.

Looks like it was a faulty mainboard after all. The new one ran without fans for over an hour without any segfaults. And it's 30 degrees Celsius in that room ATM.
Now I might have too look into another case because 40mm fans tend make high pitched noise that does not really go away even when using the NF-A4x10 FLX with low-noise adapter.
I have ordered a Scythe Kaze Jyu Slim 100 mm, hope it does fit. I'll try to attach it to the case cover with velcro tape and leave the second HDD/FAN bracket out.

For an edge arrangement I would do this.
RE0=WAN with Dynamic IP
RE1=LAN set to Static IP with 192.168.10.1
OPT1=WLAN set to Static IP with 192.168.20.1(Or Subnet of your choosing)

Save and go to DHCP server tab and enable DHCP server on both LAN and WLAN interfaces. Use an appropriate address range for leases. Get your WLAN going before dealing with the WAN -by connecting to the LAN port with a client machine.

Now go to firewall rules and make a rule for OPT1 that looks like the rule for LAN which is made automatically at setup.
Source=OPT1 net -Any/Any for starters and you can refine later.

Your choice of an RALink adapter may not have been the best choice. Atheros works best in hostAP mode in my opinion.

I have the same mobo and cpu hooked up with a DC PS. Looking for a wlan card to go in the mini-pcie slot that will work with pfsense.

does anyone know what is the motherboard pfsense firewall C2758 ?

If you mean a compatible platform not from Netgate or ADI it should be a Supermicro C2758 mainboard
like the Supermicro A1SRi-2758f If you mean the original mainboards from the Netgate / ADI sold in the pfSense store you will not be able
to get them from outside of the shop, because ADI (Netgate) where soldering them self or let them soldering.
But from the ADI store you will be able to buy it. RCC-VE8860

@rainer_d:

Ah, thank you.

Varia even has CHF prices.

Varia store is located in Germany, Leipzig and are selling and shipping for € worldwide.

@voleatech:

I can just tell you my experience.
Don't use Realtek ever.
I tried it a couple of times and it was a disaster every time.
Even if they worked they had problems under load or randomly stopped working.
Use Intel NICs whenever you can.

Yeah, from reading other reviews I am leaning towards just getting a new board with dual Intel NIC's. The Realtek board had a new AC wifi card in it that would be nice to have (I know pfSense wouldn't currently recognize it but in the future it may). Best to get the known working Intel NIC though and avoid future headaches.

Hi everyone,

we are also offering the SG desktop and rack systems now.

https://shop.voleatech.de/en/product-category/pfsense-hardware-en/

Our company is not just a hardware seller but an IT solution provider, so we also offer support for pfSense.
We are founded on Open Source and primarily work with Linux and FreeBSD.

We are a happy to officially support the pfSense project and because of our work we know how important it is to do so.

We are happy to share our experiences and answer any questions anyone has either here or via email.

Best
Sven

Upgrade to 2.2.3 (or login to the portal and download the 2.2.3 image if you have registered)

The FS corruption issue is known to be a problem on 2.2.2 and earlier, but we fixed it on 2.2.3.

I believe these all have 2GB compact flash cards. The one I looked at still had pfsense 1.23 on it, but I have one that runs the latest version with a wife card. That ones not for sale.

@BlueKobold:

Looking for something small, maybe external DC Power supply.

M350 miniITX case is one of the most used cases together with a Pico PSU.

I use a M350 with Pico PSU.

A 5/16 socket (or 8mm) or wrench should be the right size to tighten the nut. Also make sure you have removed the nut and washer and put them on the outside of the case. If you are trying to tighten the nut from the inside of the case that won't work properly.

I took a few pics of the process here:
http://imgur.com/a/W5DBg

Most of the time I just use my leatherman rather than fetching a socket though.

@heper:

wikipedia:

PCI Express 2.0[edit]

A PCI Express 2.0 expansion card that provides USB 3.0 connectivity
PCI-SIG announced the availability of the PCI Express Base 2.0 specification on 15 January 2007.[26] The PCIe 2.0 standard doubles the transfer rate compared with PCIe 1.0 to 5 GT/s and the per-lane throughput rises from 250 MB/s to 500 MB/s. This means a 32-lane PCIe connector (×32) can support throughput up to 16 GB/s aggregate.

PCIe 2.0 motherboard slots are fully backward compatible with PCIe v1.x cards. PCIe 2.0 cards are also generally backward compatible with PCIe 1.x motherboards, using the available bandwidth of PCI Express 1.1. Overall, graphic cards or motherboards designed for v2.0 will work with the other being v1.1 or v1.0a.

The PCI-SIG also said that PCIe 2.0 features improvements to the point-to-point data transfer protocol and its software architecture.[27]

Intel's first PCIe 2.0 capable chipset was the X38 and boards began to ship from various vendors (Abit, Asus, Gigabyte) as of October 21, 2007.[28] AMD started supporting PCIe 2.0 with its AMD 700 chipset series and nVidia started with the MCP72.[29] All of Intel's prior chipsets, including the Intel P35 chipset, supported PCIe 1.1 or 1.0a.[30]

Like 1.x, PCIe 2.0 uses an 8b/10b encoding scheme, therefore delivering, per-lane, an effective 4 Gbit/s max transfer rate from its 5 GT/s raw data rate.
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PCI Express 2.1[edit]
PCI Express 2.1 (with its specification dated March 4, 2009) supports a large proportion of the management, support, and troubleshooting systems planned for full implementation in PCI Express 3.0. However, the speed is the same as PCI Express 2.0. Unfortunately, the increase in power from the slot breaks backward compatibility between PCI Express 2.1 cards and some older motherboards with 1.0/1.0a, but most motherboards with PCI Express 1.1 connectors are provided with a BIOS update by their manufacturers through utilities to support backward compatibility of cards with PCIe 2.1.

my bad, thanks for educating :)

The SG-8860 1U variant is available now:

http://store.pfsense.org/SG-8860-1U/

There will be a 1U 4860 coming soon.

It also depends on your definition of "small".  Refurb SFF (small form factor) PCs like the Lenovo Core2Duo units are 12.5" W x 14" D x 4" H.  That size comes with (1) low-profile PCI and (1) low-profile PCIe slot (probably x8 or x16).

There is also the "ultra-small" variant which is 10.8" W X 9.4" D X 3.1" H - but that only has a single PCI slot (which is okay up to about 200Mbps?).

The Lenovo M58 series units come with a single Intel NIC, which is a big positive for them. You can easily add a 2nd low-profile Intel single/dual port NIC for not too much.  Mine draws about 38-40W idle and 50-65W under heavy load.

That's what it seems like from the Google results I was looking through. On similar if not identical HP servers you can find Linux boot log output that says something along the lines of x2APIC broken, disabling.

Trying the most recent FreeBSD 11-CURRENT snapshot might be telling, in at least determining whether or not it's still a hardware issue, or if it's one that's been worked around in software.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/

not that it'll help you at this instant, but it's at least another data point. Booting a Linux distro and looking for logs along those lines might also be telling.