• Prevent shutdown when pressing the power button

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    Just came here to say thanks for this tip. My wife has on more than one occasion accidentally hit the power button while moving stuff around in our closet and caused our SG-5100 to promptly shut down. Grr!

    I used the System Tunable method. Problem solved! 👍

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  • pfSense build with problems with Intel S1200KPR

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    Similar thing happens on the Intel S1200BTL, BTS boards. Use UEFI instead of Legacy that solves the issue.

  • PC Engines APU4c4 - Slow LAN

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    You could try the other values shown at that link.

    It's odd that you need them though. Even given you're running with PPPoE I would have expected that CPU to pass 100Mbps easily.
    Check for errors in Status > Interfaces.

    You are seeing the full line rate if you test from pfSense using speedtest-cli so it looks to be a LAN side issue. But you're also seeing >300Mbps to the LAN directly which implies some routing problem maybe.

    It looks like you've tried a while bunch of different things here. It's possible you have something left over or a conflicting setting. I would probably reinstall clean and see what you get with a default config there. 100Mbps just shouldn't be a problem. A lot of those tweaks were aimed at getting 1Gbps through that box.

    Steve

  • Hardware options to run pfSense

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    stephenw10S

    Ha nice. 👍

  • Problems installing pfsense on Cymphonix network composer EX220

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    There are certainly easier platforms you could use!

    Depends what you're in it for, you could probably learn quite a lot from trying to get that working even if it doesn't work.

    What NICs are those? If they're not em or igb (Intel) then I'd probably move on to something else.

    It's almost certainly possible to get it working but it could be challenging. One of those unpopulated headers on the expansion card may well provide a jumper to set the relays. Otherwise it would be a matter of probing in software which is needle/haystack time without any clues to help. Does it still boot the original OS? The bootlog from there may give is a clue.

    Cymphonix have done it right with that expansion card. Unlike some other devices that look more like something I could have done myself just to get it working. 🙄

    Steve

  • Can I use an HP t730 for 1Gb internet and OpenVPN routing?

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    @Rico Not anything I have access to. 😉

    There probably are things that have fast enough single thread performance to do it.
    https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

    If we assume it scales we could probably guess at what is required...

    I would expect to need a score there of at least 2200 to get close to 1Gbps using AES-GCM in ideal conditions. Which isn't too wild a requirement. More data needed!

    Steve

  • Drive Space Incorrect Raid 5

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    Try geom part list.

    It looks like mounted slice just isn't any bigger that 2TB.

    Steve

  • qotom Q375G4 - i7-5500u - 8gb ram - sim card slot issue

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    @DaddyGo
    thank you very much.....
    I will first try with a usb vodafone zte 4g modem that i have...maybe less trouble
    thank you very much.
    there is no info about this stuff around the net.

  • Bricked SG-3100

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    @stephenw10
    HI,

    Unless people have an equiped workshop with rework tooks and good SMT skills and the nessasary programmers and code then its not a viable for people to do.

    Speak with the people who repair your devices at component level they will have certainly come across the problem and know how to resolve it.

    I've now had quite a lot of people contact me saying that they have a bricked device with the same symtoms we experianced and the serial console regardless to baud rate setting is displaying garbage. It seems its more common than has been talked about. Happy to help anyone who has the nessasary tools and skills to be able to recover their device.

  • New user questions/advice

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    audianA

    @johnpoz - solid advice!

  • Upgrading Realtek with alternate driver - Is it worth it?

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    stephenw10S

    Does the dashboard now show it running at full speed?

    Any test where the 2220 is actually running iperf is not a good one. pfSense is not optimised as TCP terminator.

    Really you need to test through it, with an iperf3 server on one interface and a client on the other. Running iperf3 on the 2220 will itself use a lot of CPU leaving far less for actually moving traffic.

    Steve

  • Long beep at the end...

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    @czar666

    We use many pcEngines MOBOs and almost all have different sounds at shutdown and start-up.

    According to our observations, the sound you hear usually depends on the amount of stopping and starting processes and resource requirements.

    This small unit is not a power machine and it also depends on processes how long it takes for sound exactly what state you are restarting from.

    The latest BIOS 4.12.0.1:
    https://pcengines.github.io/#mr-35

    It’s good to hear that you’ve achieved a reassuring result.

    PS:
    4.11.0.6 not recommended "stepping stone" in the BIOS life, for example we did not update to this release.
    (4.11.0.4 similarly, can cause problems)

  • Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of RAM!

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    @SmokinMoJoe

    I agree with you, we also use VMware ESXi and Xen hypervisors, but not for pfSense, these are super things, but in my opinion - not at the main front door.
    (if a hypervisor system dies, a lot of things die with it)

  • Asus P9D-I headache. Won't POST.

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    @ColinGill I wish I could remember. I ended up running opnsense on it for a while and I've since switched over to a 1U Supermicro server.

  • Dual Port Low profile NIC

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    And I use my PCIe 2.0 card in a 1.1 slot. Works fine.

  • Compatibility problem w/ Jetway JBC313U591W-3160-B

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    @sremick Glad it's sorted. It wasn't clear (to me) that your system was continuing to boot. I've only ever experienced a similar issue when inadvertently using the wrong installer (VGA instead of serial). I tend to do everything via the console.

    I still think this is a bit odd that I've had no problems with what appears to be an identical motherboard to yours and have not had to make any alterations at the loader prompt on this system to install pfSense. I've also had no installation issues with another 'generic' J3160 system. If this was a common problem with J3160/N3160 boards then I suspect the forums would be full of Protectli owners with the same issues. 😉

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    Hmm, yeah always worrying.

    I would check Status > Interfaces. Make sure you aren't seeing errors/collisions on that port.

    Could just be a bad cable or connection somewhere.

    Steve

  • Problem with two identical usb network cards

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    @stephenw10
    Thank you Steve

    All working perfect!

  • Load bnxt driver in 2.4.5

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    Possibly spoke a bit too soon there, the expansion card interfaces show up now that the bnxt driver is loaded but as soon as I turned VLANs on at the switch ping, DHCP etc. all stopped working. All sorted now though.

    I found the solution elsewhere on this forum for another Broadcom NIC. As suggested in that topic I have enabled promiscuous mode on the interface that I have VLANs on. This appears to have resolved the issues although I haven't been testing it for long.

  • SG-4860 jumper layout

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    It should be pins 3-4. See step 3 here: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/sg-4860-1u/msata-installation.html

    Steve

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