All of those links take me to a page that requires login on aliexpress.

Is there any reason the official netgate solution wouldn't work for you?

I'm not sure if the SG-3100 would work for the home, office and guest setup using the LAN and OPT1 interfaces. Not sure if the RT-AC87u setup as an access point with a separate guest login would prevent the guest users from accessing the rest of the LAN it's connected to. My feeling is it wouldn't so you might need another interface and AP for the guest if that's the case (SG-5100).

If price is an issue, I hear good things about the apu2 platform.

Yeah looks like that. I've decided to try and figure out HA in VMs on unraid... just for fun. One is working perfectly, now on to the HA setup :) cheers.

Oh, the internet is working.
Seems very slow.
I hope the internet is only for the VM router and hypervisor and not this local computer, where I stream videos.
I will need to only allow certain devices on the router for internet, due to low need and a low internet plan.

The hypervisor has a very slow connection with a ping of 4000 ms.

Looks like I can progress to the network configuration.
Case closed and thanks.

@valnar said in 2020 home build or buy?:

I have a 200/10Mb cable circuit and run pfSense on a PCEngines APU2C4 (new one is APU2E4). It's more than powerful enough and barely sips electricity. I run Plex through it just fine. It can handle 500Mb+

Concur. I just installed pfSense on a PC Engines APU2E4. I don't have gigabit fiber WAN yet (currently just 25 Mbps ADSL) but there are plenty of credible reports that the APU2E4 will push 500 Mbps (unencrypted) without optimization, and 950-1000 Mbps with a couple of minor tweaks.

The APU2E4 has a few specs that make it especially pfSense-friendly:
AMD Embedded G series GX-412TC, 1 GHz quad-core CPU WITH AES-NI support.
4 GB of ECC RAM
Up to 120GB internal mSATA (not CF card) storage
3 Intel i210AT ethernet ports. (The i210AT has double the number of transmit/receive queues vs the closely-related-and-more-common i211AT.)
DB9 / RS232 serial console port
2 x USB 3.0 ports
Completely fanless, and very low power draw, around ~6 watts idle ~10W max. Compare that to using a random old desktop or server PC which could draw easily 30W-40W idle, maybe much more depending on configuration.)
Very compact (about 6" x 6" x 1" thick)
Very competitive price point

If you enjoy spending hours to days messing around with random old hardware, trying to figure out whether the ethernet interfaces in it are a) compatible with BSD b) reliable in general c) performant enough to allow pfSense to shine as it should, and mucking around with BIOS-related boot quirks, etc, by all means, dig around in your closet or go to Goodwill or a flea-market.

If you want a smoother, easier pathway to a decent-performing and reliable pfSense community-edition install, go with a well-known hardware vendor with recent good compatibility reports.

Yeah that is a spammer, doing a per-emptive strike on that... Nonsense post from India IP - 99.999999% likely hood of freaking spammer.

What he posted is a direct copy from a website.. It's like they search for some key words, copy paste what they find and then try and add some nonsense link in it..

SuperMicro confirmed provels' suspicion

The "Physical" you are seeing is the physical CPU count, not the CPU core count. So there is only 1 CPU there, then it will show 1 at "Physcial".

Thanks for everyones help.

@bmvik said in My Access Point IP:

I just can't find out what my AP IP address is,

Reset it !!! connect your device to one of its ports get an IP from its dhcp server.. Why would you dick around for more than 30 seconds if you couldn't connect to it?

Set the IP, and then connect it... Your talking all of what 2 minutes.. Took you longer to post the problem..

@AndrewZ Thank you, changing util.inc sounds like a solution, at least for the rare cases of power failure.

Works fine on Pfsense 2.4.4 and later releases/snapshots, only thing is that altq is not functioning so if you want to traffic shape it has to be with limiters.

Exactly... Even if you don't put them in HA - have one on the shelf as spare.. And support contract would be a given.. It minor cost of doing business when your edge device becomes critical to business.

There is play, and there is non critical where you might do a build your own box sort of thing to save a few bucks. But when it comes to mission critical to the business.. Put in an appliance, have back up plan, have support.. Its cost of doing business.

Example we have multiple appliances on non sla connections for guests and play internet for users in the locations. I don't have support contract - partly because I have been running pfsense for 10+ years and pretty sure I could handle anything that might happen ;) And another if it was down for a few days it wouldn't effect the business.

Looks like you're running iperf on pfSense which is not really a good test. That could be the limit.

Much better to test between LAN and LAN2 with separate iperf server and client if you can.

Steve

Oh, yeah you need to install the LCDproc package. 😉

Hmm, I don't think I've ever done anything but pulling the barrel connector on the APU(1) I have. Never seen any issues.

Steve

Celeron(R) CPU E1500 @ 2.20GHz

Mmm, that's old indeed!

You can probably reduce the minimum fan speed in the BIOS assuming it is not running hot. Setting the target temperature slightly higher can also reduce the fan speed on an auto fan controlled board.

Steve

For running standalone with VLANs (and a bunch of other things) there's always: https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/unifiac 😉

Steve

Unlikely unless you increased the log sizes massively or are exporting to an external syslog server.

You will have to enable it again and wait for it to fail.

Steve

Thanks. E-waste it is then.

Yeah running iperf on pfSense will not give you a good result. pfSense is not a good server, it's not optimised as an end point for connections. Also the iperf process itself uses significant CPU cycles that could be used to move packets.
Test between two hosts on WAN and LAN.

Steve