qlxgb is included as a module in 2.6, if should attach if it's compatible.

Do you see any attach errors in the boot log?

Steve

You can set: hw.ix.flow_control=0 as a loader variable and it will apply the default to all ix NICs.

@iptvcld said in benefits to use zfs with disk mirror:

will it cause more issues then what it is worth? As in slowness, mirror issue with data sync, etc..

No. At least not in my experience. I have several setup like that and have never seen any issues. If anything I expect it to be faster.

Steve

Use TRex: https://trex-tgn.cisco.com/

@stephenw10 Thanks for your reply. Yes there are OpenWRT images for this device, will do some testing.

Oh, that's interesting. Never seen that before. 🤔

For some reason this forum won't let me post the URL's of the things I used so I made a txt file with the links I used for these steps:

links.txt

@stephenw10 Thanks, good to know it's somewhat normal. I tried that but unfortunately it didn't seem to have an effect. I guess I can either live with it or turn of BIOS redirection, unless anyone has any particularly clever ideas.

Wanted to update this post. it was the card.
I had a sas LSI pcie card handy stuck in there and did the pciconf -lv and it found it. As a last ditch effort got windows on this machine and even windows could not see it.
All these test were done with the riser installed so my stuff was working.

@hansgruber

I'll assume you have a 5000 model.
It looks like a standard intel machine , with industrial specs

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It doesn't mention much about the network cards (just dual + gigabit)
But there are drivers for realtek network cards on Dell, for that model.
Realtek isn't the "best" networkadapter for pfSense, but with a little driver trickery, it might work perform reasonably well.

On the installed Ubuntu , try to run the commands :

lspci lsusb

And paste the outputs here.

Good info here
https://dl.dell.com/topicspdf/dell-edge-gateway-5000_service-manual_en-us.pdf

I would just make a pfSense USB install stick , and give it a try.

/Bingo

OS Compatibility Chart
It seems that FreeBSD 12 is well supported but with two
hints pointed to the Hardware.

A5 - sSATA (w/o RAID, AHCI mode) B2 - SAS (IR mode)

Actual pfSense 2.6 is based on FreeBSD 12.2 or 12.3
so it should be perhaps support all hardware because
the numbers are talking about FreeBSD 12.

Maybe I am more simple, load pfSense and see what happens. In general pfSense runs on any x64 CPU and will work with a fair number of NICs.

Or pfSense Plus only supports this one from NetGate:

pfSense plus comes with one driver that is supporting many
but not all cards and/or chips. If you get hands on a support
card (chip) it will running out of the box! Coding a driver means you should be also hands on a device or hardware
and such of the Intel QAT cards are often high in price!!!

So if someone is coding that driver, that should be taking
care on all available QAT things on the market he should be sorted with money or hardware for doing this.

Spend some money to the FreeBSD Project and/or support
coders with hardware for getting the maximum out.

Hi together,

Dump Switch

pfSense comes with enough LAN port and you might be
able to insert a dump switch on each, and you don´t need
VLANs, pure routing is here the entire job of the pfSense

Layer2 Switch

pfSense is sorted with one or more VLAN capable switch
and is doing the entire routing between the VLANs on top
of its other work!

Layer3 Switch

pfSense is sorted with one or more Layer3 Switches and
the switch(es) are routing the entire workload self, this free´s up your pfSense for doing other work, or you may be able to install some more packets without problems.

So this might be the first problem, for VLAN or not VLAN
usage. And the other thing is how many Volt/Watt are all the cameras are needing, so you should be looking for
two different numbers their;

Volt/Watt per port that all cameras will be getting enough per port the entire electric budget must be also covering all port
with "xyz" Watt in total!

So if your power budget total and per port is right and
you have a really let us say powerful pfSense you can
also go with dump or layer2 switches.

NETGEAR GS728TP 28 Port Gigabit Ethernet LAN PoE Switch Smart (Netzwerk Switch Managed mit 24x PoE+ 190W, 4x 1G-SFP for ~450 €

NETGEAR GS324TP PoE Switch 24 Port Gigabit Ethernet LAN Switch Smart (24x PoE+ 190W & 2x 1G-SFP, Managed Switch mit WebGUI, VLAN, IGMP, QoS, PoE Switch 19 Zoll Rack-Montage) for ~350 €

Netgear GS524PP Switch 24 Port Gigabit Ethernet LAN PoE Switch (mit 24x PoE+ 300W for ~400 €

NETGEAR JGS524PE PoE Switch 24 Port / 16 PoE Ports (100W) ports for ~200 €
12 PoE ports

Netgear (GS524UP) unmanaged but PoE++ for ~450 €
16 PoE ports

@stephenw10

looks like the issue is caused by PfblockerNG, it would not allow any WAN traffic.
ran the Pfblocker update function, which seems to correct the issue. ( at least things start work once that is run)

@AndyRH
and yes once i to the USB nic to work it did not go above 80MBs

Tim

NETGATE 1100
$189
compared to ClearFog Base
$ 200 to ~ $ 300

NETGATE 2100
$ 349
compared to ClearFog Pro
$ 200 - ~ $ 330

Netgate appliances comes with pfSense and offers
the plus variant and they are not so far away from
their price range.

The MX65 looks to be an ARM CPU so very unlikely anyone has made that work. It would require significant development work. CE will not install on it.

Steve

@stephenw10
Thank you very much for the fast answer then i will buy it and test it.

Done. Continue in the other thread.

Yup, those things ^ 😉

But most important is the expected throughput. So what is you current/future WAN bandwidth?

Do you need high throughput between internal interfaces? At the same time?

Steve