If it doesn't work…you'll know.  :)  You'll have MTU-related issues if it's not working.

I have a DL360 G5 (416562-421) Mine has a P400i Smart Array in it not the E200i. (There are a lot of different build options when you purchase).

I don't actually use it for pfSense, but it is running FreeBSD 6.2 quite happily, which is what pfSense is running on.

Regards

Ben

EDIT: This post http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2007-04/msg01555.html seems to suggest the E200i should work with FreeBSD 6.2

At my lab, I have 2 NIC's working nicely.

I added a new one (the 3rd) and it was not found by pfsense, but was listed after BIOS test, with IRQ assigned and all stuff.

I guess it's and Realtek (dunno the model / version).

Looking at dmesg, I can see:

pci0: <network, ethernet=""> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)</network,>

Am I supposed to give up (throw away)this NIC and use another one more trustable ?

Open a ticket with specific detailed information on what happens, and how to replicate it. Assign it to me, I'll check it out at some point this week when I have a chance.

Thank you

I'm going to suggest a picmg board. They have about the size of a double length isa card and can be got on ebay for a good deal. If you drop it into a backplane you can add as many nics as you want. http://cgi.ebay.com/PEAK-6320A-SBC-SINGLE-BOARD-COMPUTER-DUAL-P-3-CPU-CARD_W0QQitemZ300123906368QQihZ020QQcategoryZ1484QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem is a dual 370 on with on onboard nic. For a backplane you can get them in any size but, I would recommend something like this http://cgi.ebay.com/BackPlane-Boards-PICMG-PCI-4S-4-SLOTS-Passive-BP-NEW_W0QQitemZ270035587335QQihZ017QQcategoryZ11175QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

It won't have any effect (at reasonable values, 100-2000 or so) unless you're using polling as it determines the polling rate. Polling use isn't recommended.

Should be.  How?  Heck if I know.  ;D

Yeah logging packets blocked by the default rule certainly shouldn't use ~20% CPU unless you're getting hammered by something that's getting blocked.

Debian testing/sid:

e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.17-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright© 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xdf100000, irq 10, MAC addr 00:03:47:AD:0A:D2
….
e100: eth1: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex

pfSense (Intel 82557, Realtek, Intel 82559[pro 100b/+]):

$ dmesg
Copyright © 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
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FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sat Jun  2 12:29:20 EDT 2007
    sullrich@builder6.pfsense.com:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/src/sys/pfSense.6
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel Celeron (634.78-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x686  Stepping = 6
  Features=0x383fbff <fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,mmx,fxsr,sse>real memory  = 133111808 (126 MB)
avail memory = 120455168 (114 MB)
wlan: mac acl policy registered
kbd1 at kbdmux0
ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
acpi0: <ibm cdtpwspt="">on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xf808-0xf80b on acpi0
cpu0: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
acpi_throttle0: <acpi cpu="" throttling="">on cpu0
pcib0: <acpi host-pci="" bridge="">port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib0
agp0: <intel 82810e="" (i810e="" gmch)="" svga="" controller="">mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff,0xfe880000-0xfe8fffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci0
pcib1: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 30.0 on pci0
pci1: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib1
fxp0: <intel 100="" 82557="" pro="" ethernet="">port 0x74a0-0x74bf mem 0xfe7ff000-0xfe7fffff,0xfea00000-0xfeafffff irq 15 at device 4.0 on pci1
miibus0: <mii bus="">on fxp0
nsphy0: <dp83840 10="" 100="" media="" interface="">on miibus0
nsphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:20:35:67:0d:31
rl0: <realtek 10="" 8139="" 100basetx="">port 0x7800-0x78ff mem 0xfe9fef00-0xfe9fefff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci1
miibus1: <mii bus="">on rl0
rlphy0: <realtek internal="" media="" interface="">on miibus1
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:f3:05:08:d7
isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0
atapci0: <intel ich="" udma66="" controller="">port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci0
ata1: <ata 1="" channel="">on atapci0
pci0: <serial bus,="" smbus="">at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
acpi_button0: <power button="">on acpi0
fdc0: <floppy drive="" controller="">port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: <ecp parallel="" printer="" port="">port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <parallel port="" bus="">on ppc0
lpt0: <printer>on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <parallel i="" o="">on ppbus0
atkbdc0: <keyboard controller="" (i8042)="">port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <at keyboard="">irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
speaker0: <pc speaker="">port 0x61 on acpi0
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <isa option="" roms="">at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xcdfff on isa0
sc0: <system console="">at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <generic isa="" vga="">at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 634775898 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
Fast IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
ad0: 1007MB <wdc ac11000h="" 12.07h12="">at ata0-master WDMA2
acd0: CDROM <crd-8400b 1.12="">at ata0-slave PIO4
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
fxp0: link state changed to UP
rl0: link state changed to UP
fxp0: link state changed to DOWN
rl0: link state changed to DOWN
fxp0: link state changed to UP
rl0: link state changed to UP
pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled</crd-8400b></wdc></generic></system></isa></pc></at></keyboard></parallel></printer></parallel></ecp></floppy></power></serial></ata></ata></intel></isa></pci-isa></realtek></mii></realtek></dp83840></mii></intel></acpi></acpi></intel></acpi></acpi></acpi></acpi></ibm></fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,mmx,fxsr,sse>

I am working to switch our CD boot loader to grub.  So far its been difficult so no promises, but I am atleast trying to do so.

unsupported method is to install the normal version to the CF and then change /etc/platform from 'pfSense' to 'embedded'.

That will save your CF from repeated writes and also give you video.

Don't install packages!

And, typically, while it works in the VM it turns out that the FX5620 isn't supported by FreeBSD's implementation of ACPI:

ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)
    ACPI-0159: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not get RSDP, AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES
    ACPI-0213: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: Could not load tables: AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES
ACPI: table load failed: AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES

Ah well, it was worth a go - I guess it'll just have to stay toasty :)

best solution is to disable everything (parallel port, serial port, sound card ,  usb) that you dont use.

yeaa, it got included in the pfsense kernel: http://cvstrac.pfsense.com/tktview?tn=1345

Unfortunately i cannot download the sample file from XML as given in the FAQ.

ok… i got the box and installation when through fine. all 4 marvell 88e8001 interfaces are up and running (latest snapshot). i'll be testing it in the next couple of days under load.

If the single port version is supported, you should have no problem with a multi-port card. I've used multi-port fxps and an old Compaq tl card.