Thanks!

I'm also running full install on CF Card. It was an old one 512MB and after 5 years it died. I just bought a new one and everything is ok again. This time 4GB so the wear leveling has more space to allocate new blocks.
And I also changed /tmp to RAMDisk, that should help a lot.

Bendsley, many thanks for your details on the Gigabit Ethernet Controller..  :D

What you have is fine. Either flash it to the NanoBSD image or do a full install on the CF card; buy an industrial CF if you're worried about write cycles, but it looks like you've got decent flash so you'd probably be fine anyway.

You can also run this command from the console or Diagnostics > Command:

It will show you the number of active CPUs (real, cores, virtual, etc)

try different cables or adapters, a lot of people say they have problems with realtek, sometimes its random (i have a realtek gigabit inf and every so often it wont work and i have to reboot, been fine for 2 weeks now)

@KWolf:

Since this appears to be a problem with FreeBSD and I can't get the card to work on the actual FreeBSD release either, I'll see if I can't file some type of bug report

You can file FreeBSD bug reports at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

Thanks for the update. I am not too worried about it. I have a Dlink DIR-655 plugged into a switch as my AP right now. The card was only going to be used as a guest zone. I have a Dlink USB 802.11G usb dongle I could also try but I am not in any hurray. Thanks again for the help!

This worked.  Thank you.

Thank you for your help. I got the StarTech ST1000BT32 Gigabit Card and it worked fine - just plugged it in and I was good to go.

Thanks once again, Jim.  I used those two cmds and that did the trick.  So I guess I will set a cron job to do rotate the logs everyday or so.  Thanks again.

We have had great success with Tyan mobos and Intel NICs.  The actual Intel NIC chips are not the identical ones as they use on their 'server' boards, but will certainly do the trick.  I would get this system up and running, then asses whether or not you are seeing the performance you seek.  I would suspect that this system will be more than capable of handling your needs.

@onhel:

@KJFubar:

Google / Ebay: DVE DSA-0421S

As an update, that power supply does not fit the Maxterm 8300, plug is too big.  Looking for an alternative option…

Huh, that's strange. As I type, I have one of these Maxterm units working on that exact model number power supply - doesn't make any sense that the DC tip size could be different on the same model, but ??

Not sure and couldn't locate the specs.  I should have phrased the question differently really.  I am looking for some comparable hardware I could run pfsense on that would provide a similar number of interfaces.  I don't need 10 interfaces and could probably get by with 6.  I am running a squid proxy and i would really like to replace this Juniper device with a pfsense setup running a transparent squid proxy.  The juniper interface is horrible IMO.

plug and play.  just works.  Only part is that it does not fit all boards, as it's 64bit card which is longer.  I used them on regular pci slots and they work as long as there is not an obstruction behind the pci slot.