Thank you Halea for your detailed response. I'd like to build a pfsense box just to familiarize myself with pfsense capabilities.

Greetings, I had my share of such HDD/FlashUSB resizing needs/issues and I usually proceed as follows: I happen to own Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 Server Edition which has a built in "rescue disk creation" function. Using that, I created boot CDs and Flash USB disks to startup any intel/amd based hardware. When I boot with the rescue disk I have access to the full Paragon Disk Manager functionality which includes drive partitioning resizing, etc. I use the resizing function to change my partitions. This version of Paragon is Linux aware and moves things around properly. To the best of my recollection only once I had problems and I believe it was on a flashdisk for beaglebone black (not pfsense related obviously). Historically I was successful in doing the same with other commercial software such as PartitionMaster, etc. If you don't have one of those, you may want to check if they have free versions as "rescue disks". (Paragon and EASEUS websites) Finally, as a completely free linux product you might want to try bitdefender's rescue disk. I believe they have a gparted version capable of doing the same. I hope I am not mistaken as I haven't used it in a while. Hope this helps. Halea

Hi Nicolas, did you find a solution? For now I'm facing the same issue. 4G as Backup using the embedded SIM and miniPCI Express lot. Thanks for your replay! Oliver

I can't find any direct reference for the UTM5 but the UTM10 seems use a CN5010 and they share the same firmware so it seems likely. I'm sure it would please quite a few people to have pfSense running on those Netgear boxes but it seems like it would require significant work for zero return.  I'd love to be proved wrong though.  ;) Steve

@gonzopancho: You guys know we have a C25x8 mini-itx board coming, right?  :-) Yes I know….I just opted to buy a Gold subscription and built my unit....cannot wait  more to have my pfSense gear ;)

Ha! funny I was just looking for this exact post about the apu1c. I just bought one, still waiting for it to arrive. So how well does it run without all of the extras installed? Did you try it with just the base install? I just bought Comcast's Extreme 105 at my new place and was thinking this thing should be more than enough to run as a firewall.

Ok, found a manual. Unfortunately it's still somewhat ambiguous. There appear to be two relevant settings but I would try using the 'workstation' profile, probably quieter than server, and 3-pin since your only fan appears to be 3pin. Is the box mounted in a rack? If you have space above it you could probably improve the cooling considerably and make it quieter by fitting a much larger fan to the top panel above the heatsink. The existing cooling doesn't look great, you appear to have just one fan that blows across the heatsink (plus whatever is in the PSU). There are no fans extracting the hot air and no ducting after the heatsink to stop hot air being recirculated into the box. You have two full sized HDs and an 85W TDP processor that doesn't support any power saving.There seems to be quite a lot of room for improvement.  ;) Steve

While technically possible, it's unsupported and would require manual work (to format the drive, the keep it mounted, and to direct packages to use the space). You're better off using an mSATA inside the device instead of the SD card, rather than an external drive. You can order the mSATA for that device preloaded with pfSense, drop sales@pfsense.org a line and ask for info.

I wonder if that little "reset" button will work in this case?

@jirupa: Getting this kind of error. The modem is working with Windows but I cannot get it to work with pfSense. Any ideas? Experiment without pfSense but with the OS/BSD, in order to find out the script(s) you need to connect as ppp0 with your ISP.

Don't use i386 on any 64 bit capable hardware. Guessing it'll more than likely "just work" with amd64, given that's a widely used piece of hardware (but one likely no one runs 32 bit on).

Looks like the PCI-X support in cas(4) was not added until FreeBSD 9.x or 10.0, though pfSense may have backported it for pfSense 2.0.x.  Check the cas(4) man page here: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cas&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+10.0-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html, and note that the 501-6738 PCI-X line is not in 8.3, but is in 10.0: The following add-on cards are known to work with the cas driver at this time:     +o Sun GigaSwift Ethernet 1.0 MMF (Cassini Kuheen) (part no. 501-5524)     +o Sun GigaSwift Ethernet 1.0 UTP (Cassini) (part no. 501-5902)     +o Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP (GCS) (part no. 501-6719)     +o Sun Quad GigaSwift Ethernet UTP (QGE) (part no. 501-6522)     +o Sun Quad GigaSwift Ethernet PCI-X (QGE-X) (part no. 501-6738) So, 2.2beta should theoretically work with your Sun card.  I (think I) verified the cas driver is compiled into the current 2.2beta image: [2.2-BETA][root@pfsense.localdomain]/root(7): uname -a FreeBSD pfsense.localdomain 10.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-PRERELEASE #49 30e366f(HEAD)-dirty: Mon Oct  6 03:27:35 CDT 2014    root@pf22-amd64-snap:/usr/obj.amd64/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.10  amd64 [2.2-BETA][root@pfsense.localdomain]/root(8): kldstat -v | grep -i cas                 106 cas/miibus                 105 pci/cas

I got to test this device again and using the number keys works.

ah ha, so it doesn't work then.  Using it for the WAN is why I need it for client mode. SOLUTION: was to use pfsense 2.2 BETA, it works like a charm with this ralink 3072, and was detected automatically. Thanks for the help though,

Thanks for the info Derelict.

Looking at the C2758 since a while as a replacement to reduce my power consumption. Let me know how it spans on heavy load. I have Snort, Squid, pfblocker, Dans (with clamd). If it doesn't hold up then I suppose I can still live with my i3 (2nd generation) for now.

Thanks you for your consideration. I live in Italy :-D ….. I think that with my administrative offices I will able to buy the hardware only in November and the install of the firewall is scheduled for Jannuary. I hope that the 2.2 will be stable in Jannuary 2015 :-D.  I think that IPV6 on freebsd 10 (pfsense 2.2) is better than IPV6 on freebsd 8.3 (pfsense 2.1.5). I will say though that your list above contains only Gigabit NICs so how have you come to your 4Gbps figure? My network Is complicate…..  Now I use a firewall with 6 NICs.  Now I use 2Gbps (I see on my mrtg graph). If I buy a new firewall I want double the fire power. I don't want to be precise. Thank you

Do you actually need 1Gbps throughput? You won't get that with pfSense and a D2550 CPU. 'Laggy' performance can be very subjective and impossible to compare when he doesn't say what throughput he was trying to push. Steve