Glad you got it sorted.

Yup. No 802.11ax support in FreeBSD and hence pfSense. And, yes, also only experimental level ac support and not in pfSense yet anyway.

Steve

You could use this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSNSwitch-Internet-Enabled-IP-Remote-Power-Switch-with-Reboot/392301437447?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Could be model dependant but according to HP it's mSata https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c04017240

@kiokoman said in IBM Intel Pro 1000 PT Quad Port Server Adapter PCI-E-39Y6138:

i found this more recent..
https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/813qo3/recommend_50_nics_for_building_a_pfsense_router/

i see people that had trouble with that card if used with new motherboard, it seems that it's too old for / incompatible with new gen pci-e

Alright, thanks for the link and the information given.

I hope the forum has a sticky so to show all the compatible NIC available from Intel/IBM/HP/DELL.
So that builders like me, can refer it as a quick reference.

Lesson learned here, not all Intel NICs are supported, you need to do your
thorough research before it is too late to return it back to the supplier.
Especially most supplier does not allow to accept any return, if it is not faulty.

Thank you. 👍

Generally speaking most things should work. If something works with FreeBSD 11.1 it will almost certainly work with 11.2 or 11.3 (or 12). The sort of regression that would prevent that is very unusual.
Brand new hardware may require FreeBSD 12 for example or even not be supported at all so it's better to use stuff that has been around for a while in most cases.

I don't have any specific recommendations though.

Steve

I think you shouldn't be concerned whatever you go for... I suggest to buy a server grade machine because they are cheap... Also your WAN speeds combined seems not a big deal so I think any dual CPU server will do the work... For example I have Cisco UCS C210 M2 with 2x X5650 6 core CPU, 24 GB DDR3 RAM, 2x Broadcom dual SFP+ 10G NIC... This machine have configured 4 WAN : 2x 10 Gbit/s plus (2x 1 Gbit/s trough onboard ports) from 4 separate ISP, 2x LAN ports 10 Gbit/s, OpenVPN and some other things... I share internet to some of my neighbors as well... Never had any problems and never seen load exceed 10% even with lots of traffic... As I remember before few months ago there was a new game released and we are eager to play, so 4-5 of my friends including me started to download at the same time and we accumulated near 800 MB/s without a problem :)

@Grimson Thanks, will share there also!

Nice. Easy fix! 😁

Steve

Thank you for all your replies and help. I ended up going with the SG-3100, which includes a built-in switch. I believe it's going to be fast enough based on my research. At the very least, it'll be more secure (if I can get Suricata working).

@stephenw10 Thanks for the response. I am sure that the life cycle for the my APU is pretty much done. She has served me well, but considering that I will probably be looking to use squid and suricata, it might be time for me to bite the bullet and upgrade accordingly.

Its really knowledgeable discussion thanks for the advice.

I have never tested that device so I can't say.

However running a speedtest that saturates your connection in any direction will affect TCP traffic in the other direction as it interupts the ACK packets.

Whilst it is possible to bridge ports to put them in the same layer 2 and act as a switch it's almost always better to use an actual switch.

Steve

Good day

Fortunately I only borrowed the K5150 to test the failover and load balancing before I invest in proper hardware.

It seems like there isn't a quick or easy solution to this so we might just as well close this issue.

Thanks for the help everyone.

@JeGr said in APU2 Led Script:

@fireodo Did you test it? ALIX was pretty similar wired than the first APUs? Don't have one around to test though, that's why I was asking.

Maybe the APU1 was similar wired as the ALIX-Boards but not the APU2. I tested Blinkled and Gwled on my Apu2 Board and they where without effect.
And I'm not the only one: (see also: Apuled )

Ooo nice. That looks like overkill, yes. 😉

Steve

As I said in the other thread I have never seen one nor any useful documentation that might be used to code one unfortunately.
If you can find anything let us know.

For reference: http://portwell.com/pdf/ca/EZIO-G500.pdf

Steve

Ah, well hard to argue with that! 😉

Steve