Hmm…  Shipping in March.  Going to email them about that.  I was going to order a box from Lanner to play with but this meets my needs better since it ships with CentOS 7 installed and that's what I was going to load...

@pfBug: Now, what I want to do is use a different router than my ISP provided. I don't want to use the new router in AP mode because it locks out features that I specifically bought it for. I think I can set the ISP's Modem/Router to bridge mode and then connect my new router to it, but again, this is based on my minimal understanding at this point. If you set it to bridge mode, AFAIK it does become a simple modem.  You then just run ethernet CAT 5 from your (now simple) DSL modem to your WAN pfSense port.  It should already have one RJ11 jack for the telco connection and one RJ45 jack for the ethernet connection. I'm not sure I see how or what features would be used if you set it to bridge mode.  The modem just disappears and becomes part of the furniture :)

Thanks guys. I meant open source (free) version of OSSIM. It's still pretty good and I'm quite comfortable with it. I'm planning to mostly use it for SIEM purposes so it being pure IDS won't hurt. I do like pfsense's integration of Snort though :) Already tested it with some nmap scans and scapy. I've also used Security Onion before. I enjoyed with its large number of quite stable packages.

TP-LINK TL-WA701ND TRENDnet TEW 650AP cheap Works

@robi: @robi: debug.acpi.avoid="\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.UAR1 \_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.UAR2" Just a quick note that this is NOT needed anymore for 2.2-RELEASE Thanks!  Confirmed on my systems that needed this workaround as well, uart0 attaches to acpi0 properly now.

Try to measure your power power consumption with the older hardware. Some use so much power it's not worth using it over buying a new small board that uses 1/10 of the electricity..

Thanks, my IPMI was going to be limited to an admin only net but there's no reason to take chances.

A celeron g1840 stays at 500 mhz under normal usage with gigabit wan, and barely goes to 1000 when doing 90+ MB/s torrenting with 500+ torrents. This is with intel pro 1000 / ct gigabit pci-express cards.

Reporting back after 11 days running on AC-BNFA-NQ. Seems to be stable and hasn't stopped working yet.

Spoke too soon, the system cannot handle a power failure.  It will boot fine once, then if the power gets pulled, it will get stuck at the boot loader prompt. If I re-do the boot fix it might work again, it might not.  Maybe I have bad cf cards, they are original, 7 years old. Josh

Have you run a memtest to qualify the memory?  Looks like that's only a partial fault message, do you have the rest?

Thanks for all your help, Is this what you mean? Would it be better if I just bought any card with the i350. Thanks for your help, new to pfsense. http://www.ebay.com/itm/39Y6138-IBM-INTEL-PRO-1000-PT-QUAD-PORT-PCIe-GIGABIT-ETHERNET-NIC-SERVER-ADAPTER-/131233334080?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e8e1dc340 Thanks Alec.

The people who develop FreeBSD tend to use a lot of high end hardware because they're mostly sys admins and run real servers and only recently getting decent wifi support. Your best bet for PFSense hardware is Intel and no wifi. Intel CPU Intel NIC AHCI harddrive good to go.

This link might help you out: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/basic-10gb-setup-for-two-pcs.2105/ It leans towards an inexpensive point to point QDR infiniband setup. Two nics can be had for around $100 ish and connect x-2 support RDMA with the OS(s) you're using. Could save you a bit of money over going 10gbe and it's quite a bit quicker.

I have a Super X7SPA-HF which doesn't have a parallel port

Check the logs. I had to set a tunable to prevent excessive stuck beacon errors. A wifi interface will almost always see some errors because it's exposed to random radio interference. You might have some source of RF noise near your box, or in your box. I had to set the antenna carefully because I only one antenna. If it was left at default the range was absolutely terrible. Old but relevant: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=8632.0 Steve

Please give more details on the card. USB, PCI, PCIe? Model number? In general it is not necessary or possible to install drivers in pfSense. In very rare cases there may be a newer driver you can use that's being developed. If it's a Ralink USB NIC you probably have to load the firmware. Steve

Yup, that would do it. Thanks!

Awesome work guys on releasing 2.2 No more expensive paper weight laying around  :) Thanks guys for all your hard work