Thanks for sharing. What sort of performance did you see with this Conor?

I work on these generation servers from Dell regularly. They are approaching 10 years old and we have started seeing motherboard failures. As others have stated you are probably seeing some type of hardware failure.

Ok, then I have to wait until pfSense gets some updates and supports my card.

In the mean time I installed Lede/OpenWRT, it works great and was easy to install using many tutorials written for this card.

{ENG} How to install Lede on x86
{GER} Configuration for EM/MC Modules
{GER} Bringing the module to MBIM mode

Thank you for your support Steve!
I will return to pfSense as soon as it gets support for my card, don't worry :)

-Marcel

Hmm, yup I'm also seeing that now. I had rebooted into single user mode rather than trying to use the menu.

Loader path: /boot/loader.efi Initializing modules: ZFS UFS Probing 4 block devices.....*. done ZFS found no pools UFS found 1 partition command args: -S115200 -D Consoles: EFI console C |Command line arguments: loader.efi -S115200 -D Image base: 0x757b4000 IEFI version: 2.50 EEFI Firmware: EDK II (rev 1.00) E FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1 F(Tue Sep 4 22:35:58 EDT 2018 root@buildbot3) ( Load Path: HD(2,GPT,7973EC77-BC18-11E8-99F1-0008A20BC486,0x64028,0x379C000) Load Device: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x13,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)/HD(2,GPT,7973EC77-B BC18-11E8-99F1-0008A20BC486,0x64028,0x379C000) BootCurrent: 0003 BootOrder: 0007 000a 0003[*] 0000 0002 0004 0005 0001 Trying ESP: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x13,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0x0,0x0)/HD(2,GPT,7973EC77-BC18- c - spinconsoleles:is invalid!conf79C000) / __ _ __ / _|___ ___ _ __ ___ ___ | '_ \| |_/ __|/ _ \ '_ \/ __|/ _ \ | |_) | _\__ \ __/ | | \__ \ __/ | .__/|_| |___/\___|_| |_|___/\___| |_| +============Welcome to pfSense===========+ __________________________ | | / ___\ | 1. Boot Multi User [Enter] | | /` | 2. Boot [S]ingle User | | / :-| | 3. [Esc]ape to loader prompt | | _________ ___/ /_ | | 4. Reboot | | /` ____ / /__ ___/ | | | | / / / / / / | | Options: | | / /___/ / / / | | 5. [K]ernel: kernel (1 of 2) | | / ______/ / / | | 6. Configure Boot [O]ptions... | |/ / / / | | | / /___/ | | | / | | | /_________________________/ +=========================================+

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/8978

It also looks like you lose VGA as the primary console doing that and I've not found a way to restore it, yet.

Steve

Probably that ^ 😉

Is any of it x86?

Steve

Sorry, I got the model number wrong, it's SYS-E200-9A. SuperMicro page

The total price was under $750 with 16GB of RAM, 128GB of SSD, shipping, and California tax.

@stephenw10 said in Atom E3950 Performance Question:

The i210 I believe it limited to 2 queues anyway, I'm insure about i211.
Steve

My understanding is i210 has up to 4 queues and the i211 has up to 2. Which is why the MBT-4220 (4-Core) uses the i210 and the MBT-2220 (2-Core) uses i211.

See table 1-6 on page 11...
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/i211-ethernet-controller-datasheet.pdf

Oh, beginner mistakes: D pfsense runs already fine ;) thank you!

Moved to hardware. This is very definitely not official hardware! 😉

Most socket 775 CPUs will work. The best source is to check the XTM5 thread.

However why do you need to upgrade? That CPU is already close to the fastest you can get for that. No CPUs that will work there have AES-NI.

Steve

That's why I try to ask those who have same hardware face the same issue or not. Well, gonna swap it this weekend to find it out.

Thanks anyway, will update again after testing.

Thank you for your swift reply :) Honestly i haven't tested to much, but your reply gave me a bit more confidence that the problem is not with the hardware, but poor networking elsewhere. I will do some more testing and report back my findings.

@slimaxpower said in Looking for Low Power Budget Build Suggestions (BC, Canada):

@rnatalli until they fail.
I have just replaced my current system (n54l) with an i7 4770 with multiple intel pcie nics 80+ PSU so its low power with way more grunt than I will ever need.

My current system CPU is always above 60% and 8gb out of 16gb ram usage. that's without snort or vpn active.

edit. around 300aud

Hi @SLIMaxPower would it be possible to get some more details of your build please? I'm also in Australia, finding it hard to put together something low-power for around the $300 level that would suit.

Thanks!

There are already several open threads about this, and notes have been added to the upgrade guide.
Here's one of the other threads https://forum.netgate.com/topic/135852/console-no-longer-working-after-upgrade-to-2-4-4/
Edit- beaten to the post by Derelict...

@stephenw10 Yeah, I've given up on trying to find a compatible USB wifi adapter only to still have limited range and flakiness anyways. Easier to go the route of a USB ethernet adapter, which has better support and then I'll use an external AP.

@grimson The problem is the SG-1000 only has one LAN (inuse) and WAN port. However, I believe this is close to an answer. I had a USB to Ethernet adapter laying around. Plugged it in and it's an E1000 chipset and worked the first time. So now I have a 2nd lan port that I will put an external AP on and forget about trying to save space or simplicity for the customer. The wifi on our pfSenses (about 10+) have always been flaky and I've migrated a couple of locations to an external AP and no more issues.

idle

In the supermicro superserver's c3000 series barebones. It uses A2SDi-8C-HLN4F as its motherboard. But it has 8 cores other than c3558 which has only 4 cores.

Someone gets 1gbps on netgate xg-7100 which has 4-core c3558 and Marvell switch chip(link to reddit). He also used suricata.

Currently, I certainly don't need much more than the 2008 ALIX I have.
Because 20/2 VDSL.

But hopefully, it will last for another decade or more and FFTH might actually arrive here by then (or I move).

I think I'm mostly limited by the lack of RAM today, so I'd like to get something with 4 GB.

Unfortunately, Netgate products are much, much more expensive here (.ch) than PC-Engines - but I haven't fully made up my mind, yet.
Only one local Netgate partner shows the hardware on their homepage/shop - and the Minnow-Boards are not there, so I don't even know what they cost.