@stephenw10 said in Intel I226-V: Good or bad?: If it's possible someone will try it. Well, that is true. Good leaving a disclaimer.

This: https://forum.netgate.com/post/969072 Can be worked around with this: https://forum.netgate.com/post/983284 So at the first boot interupt the boot at the loader menu to reach the loader prompt OK> Then enter: set debug.acpi.disabled="apei" boot Then once it's booted create the file /boot/loader.conf.local and add the line: debug.acpi.disabled="apei" Steve

My network interfaces are now being detected! I restored the BIOS config to "Optimized Defaults" and on the next reboot all interfaces were available and I got the expected configuration menu with pfSense 2.6.0. For reference my system was shipped with BIOS 1.7.

@madbrain said in How to blank the screen to save power ?: "something went horribly wrong" case is one where I would need the console Couldn't you just then plug it in? I have been using pfsense really since it first came out, and I don't recall ever anything going wrong where I needed console. Not saying it can't, I might of had a remote update go belly up once - which is why I didn't do remote updates during covid and not able to be local, etc.. The console isn't all that different then just sshing in - which I do all the time.. The only time I ever plug in a console is so I can watch it upgrade, etc. Or I do a clean install. My point is if your having some issue with the monitor turning on when you don't want, etc. Seems to me the simple solution would just not plug it in to pfsense. The odds of you actually needing console are really slim, gui is where you do all your config - and if you want to play on a "console" you can just ssh in, etc. The only reason I am on ssh all the time, is running commands to to show users stuff, like how long unbound is been running, unbound control commands, which really could be done from the gui for most of the stuff. But I am a command line guy at heart, etc.

@stephenw10 Thank you stephenw10. May not be worth the trouble. 1gb with existing nic works fine (slow). elmo

Mmm, I would expect that to be supported by re(4). We'd need to see the PCI IDs to know for sure. None of the cards listed there really look that great. You want to use something Intel based if possible. Used OEM rebranded cards are almost always available. See: https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/list-of-nics-and-their-equivalent-oem-parts.20974/ Steve

@stephenw10 said in NEW SFF Intel build with 4 NICs that can handle symmetric 1Gb download/upload?: You have three topics open covering basically the same thing here. Not really One is asking for clock speed. Another a SSF build Related sure, same no

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@patryan Thanks, Good to know. I've been nervous about Dev builds in my live environment though TBH. Were it not so critical as your firewall, then I might have been less concerned but given the potential security risks, it's not something I am immediately attracted by. My issue right now is anyway not on my live environment, it's merely my backup onto which I cannot (easily) install pfsense. So I am OK for now on 2.6 (ending of FreeBSD support notwithstanding). But if I have a hardware failure, I am toast since I have nothing to fail over to.

@f4-0 @stephenw10 A lot of interesting progress, I am going to start a new thread since I am facing a new set of issues, but in general the Ubuntu base install + KVM + pfSense works (partly so far). I learned a lot about KVM... great piece of kit for Linux, running natively that way.

@abent32 is your connection PPOE? How's the CPU usage? There's a long thread on ServeTheHome about these boxes and I'm sure it's on there someone had an issue like this. Cant remember how they fixed it but the entire thread is a good read. Just don't fall for the upsell of the N5105/J614x. Most pushing that are either virtualizing the firewall or letting alot of CPU power go to waste.

@monstermaxx said in Tmobile 5G hotspot and PFsense: Should I set the tmo interface to be tier 2 so it's on the cable modem unless there's a fail? Yes, I would do that. Also be aware that some types of connections can maintain their states indefinitely so will not fail back to the cable modem if they get pushed to the cell link. Steve

Ah, right I'd forgotten it ran correctly in Linux. Hmm, bizarre indeed. Only so much time you can spend diagnosing stuff...

Yes, our FreeNAS uses a X520-DA2, I will try hard-coding the speed/duplex on both the pfSense box and switch to see what comes of it and reply back after, thanks!

@stephenw10 Will give it a try when I get some time. For now, first step of moving pfsense to bare metal is done. Thanks Stephen!

You could watch the repo for updates: https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/commits/devel/net/realtek-re-kmod

@john24634 said in offline backup box in case main box fails: Does Spectrum ISP Router provides NAT? No idea. If you plug a laptop directly into their router does it get a private IP address?

Still stable with no discernible drops over the last few days. I think the issue is resolved with the driver! Many thanks to those who posted the info!

@daplumber said in Intel X520T NIC on pfSense-plus 23.01 now allows 2500Mbit selection: 10GBase-T SFP+ transceiver 10Gbase-T tranceivers have limited support. might or might not work dac's are your friend, much cheaper also

It depends what the traffic is. Given a large number of connections and routing/firewalling only then it should be possible to take advantage of a large number of cores. If you want to see the highest throughput when testing from a single client against speedtest.net then fewer cores at a higher frequency is going to give better results. That also applies traffic passing any other process that is single threaded as mentioned. So typically Snort or OpenVPN.