@stephenw10 that makes perfect sense. Thanks.. The card is an I350-t4-blk (blk for bulk) for those interested

@pete said in NTP / PPS GPS_ntpd - Time Error - PPS Jitter Exceeded:

@bingo600

So does that mean the default option should be "unticked"?

The kernel PPS is more "picky" , and the NTP PPS ought to be good enoguh for timekeeping.

Not getting any PPS Jitter Exceeded log entries on the SureGPS and U-Blox GPS with PPS.

I did purchase two more U-Blox modules with old firmware.

One of them flashed fine to current firmware and the other said it did not recognize the flash memory.

Identifying receiver updater version at 115200 baud. Firmware loader version 5.01 detected. Suitable Multi-ROM image found Check pass: u-blox8 Multi-ROM image -> u-blox8 ROM2.01-receiver No valid FW header found in Flash: 0x00000000. Identifying Flash Flash: ManID=0x68, DevID=0x4013 Flash device not supported Done in 6.4 sec. Statistics: Erases sent: 0 Writes sent: 0 Erase timeouts: 0 Write timeouts: 0

and the other one worked:

$GNTXT,01,01,02,ANTSTATUS=OK*25 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,u-blox AG - www.u-blox.com*4E 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,HW UBX-M8030 00080000*60 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,EXT CORE 3.01 (107900)*33 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,ROM BASE 2.01 (75331)*19 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,FWVER=SPG 3.01*46 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,PROTVER=18.00*11 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,FIS=0xEF4015 (84524)*67 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,GPS;GLO;GAL;BDS*77 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,SBAS;IMES;QZSS*49 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,GNSS OTP=GPS;GLO*37 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,LLC=FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFED-FFFFFFFF-FFFFFFFF-FFFFFF69*23 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,ANTSUPERV=AC SD PDoS SR*3E 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,ANTSTATUS=OK*25 18:00:44 $GNTXT,01,01,02,PF=3FF*4B

Buying those can be a "lottery"

I like the "Older" LEA-5T , as it's designed for timing (The T at the end), and at a price i can afford (will pay)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254603722675

LEA-6T or 8T are nicer but a lot pricier , and the 5T is good enough for me.

Beware , the Antenna plug is SMB M (you'd want a SMB F to SMA F adapter)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/202466110634

And the connector plug is 2mm , but easy enough to solder on. If you don't have any 2mm plugs & ribbon cable.

You can "Sneak" 2.54mm Dupont wires into the plug , but it's a tight fit.

/Bingo

@stephenw10

Thanks Steve, I was planing to use one for wired subnet and the other for wireless subnet and the onboard for external since it’s 1G the onboard is capable of 2.5G.

Joe

You should be able to boot pfSense fairly easily, you just end up with only 3 working ports; the two SFP ports and the management port. It would be nice to have the other 24 ports accessible. 😉
Did you reach that point?

Steve

22.01 will be "real soon now".
I would probably keep an eye on the RAM usage and just wait for it.

Or you can apply the patch to 21.05.2 to prevent pcscd being started at boot.

Steve

@hebein
You can use the cron package and add a job to do that.

Interpreting the pciconf data, I believe the problem is due to the card having two buses for two NICs each.
Therefore, the double sequence igp1-0 and igp3-2 is explained.
OK. I'll put a label indicating the ports ID.
Thanks everyone.

TSO should be disabled by default. As you say it doesn't make much sense to have it enabled on a firewall for almost all setups.

Steve

@pfpanda Hi hope you are fine. I have purchased a Gigabyte Vision G motherboard, and paired it with my Intel Core i3 10100F processor. But I'm facing several issues with the BIOS Update. Could me please guide me or suggest to me some kind of solution.

@stephenw10 , Yes, I was 'putting' it from pfSense to something on the LAN.

The other method I was using was hosting something on a fileserver outside of that network and wget'ing it from within the LAN.

@bole5 The Pis are all ARM I believe? Netgate has developed ARM only on its hardware, so the open source side would need to maintain the code. I suspect most people just pick up some 5+ year old PC and put another NIC in it, if they want alt hardware. Re: dongle, FreeBSD would need drivers for it.

No, the Raspberry Pi is not supported.
Also, one of the Ethernet connections is linked to a USB port so it would be a poor target in any case.

@stephenw10 Awesome!

@johnpoz Thanks for the quick reply! You are correct - I do not have any intervlan traffic. Each of the offices are independent organizations so there is no need for them to communicate. In fact, I set up firewall rules so they cannot communicate.

One reason I thought that having separate interfaces would help when moving to the 1 Gbps service is that I was getting 450-460Mbps from the 600Mbps service. I initially thought this was OK because I was probably losing some throughput due to the managed switch between the router and the rooms as well as losses due to cable length. However, I started to wonder if some of the loss was due to the fact that the single interface needed to transmit VLAN tag data, using up some of its 1G capacity that would otherwise be dedicated to transmitting Internet data to the WAN. I thought that flooding the WAN with multiple 1G interfaces might keep it busier than the single interface and use more of the WAN's 1G capacity when the service was increased to 1Gbps. However, it appears that you are saying that the single interface should be able to maintain close to its 1Gbps capacity even while processing the VLAN tag data that does not go through to the WAN - is that correct?

@sep said in Crash Dump:

i7-2600

Yes, that's a 10yo CPU at this point. If the hardware it's in is that age it should probably be replaced anyway.

Steve

@valnar said in pfSense box powered by PoE?:

Ehh. I guess I'll stick with my APU2. I was hoping to save a plug since these things are so low powered, but it isn't a priority.

But a very good point, and hopefully something Netgate will consider an option going forward...
There are so many things that would REALLY benefit from offering a PoE powered option (Firewalls, IoT devices, speakers and what not). I wish it would become much more normal to use.

@stephenw10

For kicks I set everything back the way it was for the tunable to track the bridge, not member interfaces, and had just the LAN firewall rule enabled.

It works for all clients.

Hmm, it usually runs is ATX mode. It can power down etc. Maybe the power button became disconnected? There are some additional jumpers at the front of the box where the power and reset buttons would usually be but the XTM5 doesn't have IIRC. I could imagine those becoming loose, probably worth checking.

ok I figured it out. I needed to switch the bios from UEFI to Legacy

Cooler in generally better. 😉
But the temps are not unusual for that card.