I only found 3 from SuperMicro that will fit the bill:

RSC-RR1UE-AXL (PCIex8 -> 1x PCI-X) ($60-90)
CSE-RR2UE-AX (PCIex8 -> 3x PCI-X) ($99-140)
RSC-R1UEP-A2X (PCIex16 -> 2x PCI-X) ($90-110)

I've been told that some of the SuperMicro stuff is proprietary to their boards as well. I also got an e-mail back from PLX and they don't sell direct to end-users and wouldn't give me a list of resellers (odd).  I don't really want to spend a lot of money either.  If anyone is interested, I'm willing to trade both of my cards for one Intel Quad-Port PCIe card, two Intel Dual-Port PCIe cards, or even a mITX/mATX board with dual intel NICs.  pfSense compatible of course.  PM me if you are interested.

I use a pfSense 2.0 box at home with Apple Extreme and Express units as APs.  You just won't use the WAN port on your Extreme and will need to disable DHCP.

I'd suspect the controller or cabling (and if that really is SCSI, termination).

EDIT : Error, I create a new topic for my problem ( http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41937.0.html ).

The Hifn cards are only moderately-useful with a slow CPU.  There's actually a decent shot that using it with that CPU will slow you down.

any info about this?

Looking at the other posts i might go for a sandy bridge setup.  At 500mhz for 87 1000meg network equils roughly 5750 mhz.  Assuming the network card drivers can at least have a thread per processor per card thats a 2.87 ghz duel core or above.

I know we wont have gig too soon but my mate in sweeden is already on a 1 gig connection just as i got my 100 lol.   (he only see's 300 currently no dobt because of his network gear)

Might as well build it to last.

I was thinking about a a Pentium G850 (duel core) which is rated at 2.90GHz.  Is this thinking sound?

How does pfsense or rather BSD make use of the cores with network cards?  Would a quad give more headroom for the firewall if it was only running the two interfaces (with an intel or other nice onboard network).

I have had good results from the TP-Link TL-WN321G and Tenda W311U, both USB devices, both use Ralink chipsets and both support AP mode. The Tenda is supported by the run driver in pfSense 2.0 (but not in earlier versions). The TP-Link devices I used had an older version of the Ralink chipset and were recognised by the rum driver in pfSense 1.2.3. It appears newer versions of this device need the run driver.

I have had good results from the TP-Link TL-WN651G PCI card with Atheros chipset. It appears this card has been superseded by the TL-WN350GD.

I have no experience with mini-PCI cards on pfSense though Atheros cards seem well regarded. PC Engines (http://pcengines.ch) sell a range a mini-PCI cards with Atheros chipsets. However, if I recall correctly, they don't sell direct to EU customers. The web site has links to web pages of distributors in a number of other countries.

Does your WAN link use PPPoE or DHCP?

Can your provide some lines (say 10 to 20) from the system log BEFORE and after the apinger line you quoted?

Problem solved. The traffic shaper was the bottle neck.

Better sell the pc and get an appliance. Will save you a lot of money on your electrical bill!

Not sure if it's really worth spending extra money on a dedicated crypto card unless you are pumping out several 100Mb+ VPN connections.  Eventually most newer CPUs will have this built-in.

Xeons should handle large VPN bandwidth easily.  Also software crypto are easier to update with newer ones if it ever gets broken or hacked.

Darkk

Please include stge driver in base system.
After this procedure nic is up and recognized.

stge0@pci0:0:14:0: class=0x020000 card=0x81801043 chip=0x102313f0 rev=0x41 hdr=0x00    class      = network    subclass   = ethernet stge0: flags=108843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast,ipfw_filter>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate>ether 00:1d:60:5c:xx:yy inet 192.168.0.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::21d:60ff:fe5c:e576%stge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,flag0,flag2>) status: active</full-duplex,flag0,flag2></performnud,accept_rtadv></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast,ipfw_filter>

~20 MBits/sec on my old P2

last pid: 51498;  load averages:  0.21,  0.10,  0.08                                                                            up 0+00:14:48  14:04:53 86 processes:  3 running, 70 sleeping, 13 waiting CPU: 12.1% user,  0.0% nice,  8.2% system, 27.6% interrupt, 52.1% idle Mem: 37M Active, 19M Inact, 36M Wired, 30M Buf, 111M Free Swap:  PID USERNAME  PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND   10 root      171 ki31     0K     8K RUN     11:29 42.97% idle   11 root      -68    -     0K   112K WAIT     0:43 25.98% {irq11: fxp0}   11 root      -68    -     0K   112K RUN      0:36 21.97% {irq10: stge0}

I am using the Huawei E220 on the Alix 2d.13. It is working but only with 1Mbit/s. On my linux machine I get up to 5Mbit/s with the same modem.