It appears the Apple adapter uses the Asix chipset, AX8817X.
Although not specificaly mentioned it should be supported by the axe(4) driver. This is part of pfsense.
Try it and see. I wouldn't go out and buy one though, other cheaper adapters will definately work.

Steve

Here you go:
http://www.morex.com.tw/products/productdetail.php?fd_id=51
Might be hard to find where ever you are though. As Cryhavoc says you'd best still check the polarity yourself before powering it up. (if it's at all well designed it should have a blocking diode)

Steve

If you're feeling lucky you could try the 2.0 beta and it might support that chipset better.

Sorry but i don't know if it will compile for freeBSD.
Might be worth a  shot as it is supported by linux.

Also should mention http://www.memtest.org/
memtest86+ is the best memory tester around and is 100% OS independent.
So if you ever have a suspected memory problem, give that a go

Errmmm..

This is not a Ethernet based card, this is a HBA for Fibre-channel storage attachment, like tapedrives and Diskarrays.

Not exactly what you are trying to use it for :-)

That card looks to be the same as the HP NC360T card, you could maybe get that model cheaper used too on ebay.

You can't use the LCD package, you have to install the watchguard specific driver. See the firebox LCD thread.

Steve

Hi Steve –-

I have not tried the 2.0 Beta. All firewalls I manage are key networking devices in a production enviroment. After five minutes spent on the "bug-list" page looking it over, I decided that there were far too many outstanding issues.

As a side note, while searching for a solution, many postings on other FreeBSD boards are describing the same or similar problems with various versions of FreeBSD.

There are a whole list of Windows or non-OS specific forums, Google should be of some help ;)

Take a look at the likes of SuperUser for a start.

Hi guys,
I didn't leave any notes as my firewalls are working fine at the moment - it's about 50 days now without reboot.

I thought to change the memory but I gave up as it didn't reboot for 2 days and now it's running smoothly for almost 2 months…

ugen0: <vendor 0="" 2="" 0x0fe6="" usb="" network="" controller,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.10="" 1.01,="" addr="">on uhub3</vendor>

I bought 2 of these USB-Ethernet units today for an old laptop that I'm using as a pfsense box. They produced the exact same dmesg output as yours in my pfsense 1.2.3 install. So I booted from 2.0 beta (latest snapshot) and they were detected as 10/100 USB ethernet (ue0 and ue0) devices. However, even though they were detected and had connectivity.. the link was limited to USB 1.0 speed (bout 1-1.5mbps max). They also had somewhat increased latency by 1-5ms when I ran a ping test and were quite unstable.

I would not recommend using these USB-Ethernet for pfSense. I'm returning them and getting a proper system with Intel NICs tomorrow.

@jasonlitka:

I seriously hope that the power requirement of "5V @ < 3.5A" is an exaggeration.  17.5W for a quad-port 10/100 card is ridiculous.  You should be in the 2-4W range.

Seems to be right : http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/_eol/net_duralan/ANA-62044/ (look at product specifications)

ok cool :) hope to get some IDE to SCSI adapter trays and pop a few drives in and install PF on it :)

@wallabybob:

What processes are the top CPU consumers shown by top -S?

top -SH is better. It will show both system and kernel threads.

@cyberfinn:

Im not a FreeBSD guru so i need som help creating my own drivers for it. Have you an guide for doing that or maybe another who have created the driver will sent it to me?

The drivers are built into the kernel. Though FreeBSD supports loadable drivers I don't know if its possible to load a driver to supersede one already built into the kernel. In this case probe order wouldn't be a problem since the driver in the kernel doesn't recognise your NICs. But maybe the module loader would choke on trying to load a kernel module with global symbols that already exist in the kernel. Since the driver is built from a number of source files it almost has global symbols to allow calls "between the source files".

I suspect creating your own driver to replace one already built into the kernel is "unexplored territory" and consequently could turn out to relatively easy or quite involved. I suspect its unlikely you will find a guide covering exactly this circumstance.

You've not been looking hard enough ;)

Take a look at this (UK) for a start, or this (UK) plus an additional NIC.  A search for "mini ITX" systems should find you many online stores.

Hi Eugene,

Yes, I tried it with PFsense 1.2.3. But that doesn't work and when I posted a forum thread about it, I got the advice to try it with PFsense 2.0beta1. So I did that.

Kind reagards,

Jozef00

Please read the hardware sizing guide and other threads on this forum.

Whether an Atom works for you will depend significantly on what bandwidth and packets per second (PPS) you're trying to push.  Sizing for snort depends on how you configure snort - it's easy to configure it so that it uses 100% of a 3 GHz CPU, or none of one.

Please read the Hardware Sizing guide, found one click from the pfSense home page and search this forum.  There are many threads on sizing and there's little point in re-hashing them ;)

51-200 Mbps - No less than 1.0 GHz CPU
201-500 Mbps - server class hardware with PCI-X or PCI-e network adapters, or newer desktop hardware with PCI-e network adapters. No less than 2.0 GHz CPU.

That rules out both your choices (BTW, did you read the product description page for that first one?  The one where it clearly says it can't push more than 85 Mb/s?).

Two key things to note:

You'll never achieve 100% bandwidth usage.  If you need 200 Mb/s of throughput you'll either need to aggregate 3 x 100 Mb/s ports, or use a Gbit port. Packets per second usually matters more than raw bandwidth usage (more details in previous posts).

@joebobfrank:

It may be a really long time before FreeBSD can be installed on it so I'm going to install Debian.

There are reports that FreeBSD already runs on the Guruplug's close cousin, the Sheeva: http://plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/FreeBSD_9.x_%289-current%29_Plug_Computer_Distribution