Hi! If I recall right HP sell a firewall server for Microsoft ISA, the hardware is a HP DL320 and the CPU are Celeron, that why I think that for pfSense I am sure that the Celeron must be more than enough. And for the NIC the recommendations is a good quality net cards (right now Intel or Broadcomm chipset, you get probably VLAN support, QoS tag, TCP Offload, etc.) and if possible all the cards must be the same model/brand. Greetings…

CryHavok, Thanks!  It worked a charm!!!

I got an Intel PCMCIA cardbus and this works much better. The card can get 95Mb/s on a good laptop and also on my P2 400 runninn pfsense. CPU is at about 75% though….. I just need to find another one now. So just need to issue a warning not to buy 3Com Megahertz PCMCIA cards!!!

read the product description: http://pcengines.ch/alix2c3.htm –>yes

I think this is quiet an important feature somewhere. I was using IPCOP for a while and liked to see the RRD graphs with temperatures. Modern Hard Disks have a temperature sensor via SMART so this is an option as well.

You should be able to do that.  I use that method and write to the hd woth our a issue. RC

answered here… http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,6729.15.html hm... i'm not sure where to drill a hole for an antenna... hole in the case is right infront of two usb ports

Under the Advanced tab try turning off the tcp/ip offload.

Thanks for the sanity-check, Chris.  I just installed this box this morning into production, but I'll order some parts and build another and test stock FreeBSD on it. Assuming FreeBSD has similar problems and I'm in for a bit of driver debugging to get this working ideally, if anybody has debugged this problem in any other drivers, I'm all ears.  I'm guessing FreeBSD has a printk… ;)

If you are installing onto a CF card the embedded is the right version for you since it never writes to the CF card except when you change the config. The embedded version does not need more then 128 MB, and there is no sense in using more (what for?). If you want to use packets (like snort or squid) you need the full version and then the CF is not the right medium to save your data. You could use a microsdrive (harddisk in CF format). Search the forum on which models to use (there seems to be some microdrive models which have problems).

@GruensFroeschli: use a crossover cable I tried a cross over cable as well, and the win 2K box still doesn't pick it up. I tried a cross over between my router and NAS, and they can no longer ping each other.

:) Thanks for all the replies guys, should be able to find a solution now!

I try to get working RouterBoard 44G (Realtek 8169SC) with pfSense 1.2 RC2, but im not successful. I get this dmesg and working only the last lan port. pcib2: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 5.0 on pci0 pci2: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib2 pci2: <network, ethernet="">at device 8.0 (no driver attached) pci2: <network, ethernet="">at device 9.0 (no driver attached) pci2: <network, ethernet="">at device 10.0 (no driver attached) re0: <realtek 8169sb="" 8110sb="" single-chip="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x4a000000-0x4a0000ff irq 16 at device 11.0 on pci2 miibus1: <mii bus="">on re0 rgephy0: <rtl8169s 8110s="" media="" interface="">on miibus1 rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto re0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:42:07:36:3b re0: [FAST] Can anyone help me to resolv my problem?</rtl8169s></mii></realtek></network,></network,></network,></acpi></acpi>

any interface errors shown in Status -> Interfaces?

The plan was to revert to the original version as the fix was causing more problems than it was meant to fix. It looks like no one has had the time to commit the roll back yet

helo all! anybody knows when new alix 2c3will be available? on pcengines it was saying that due date is nov 5th, but now it says out of stock.

hrhr okay :) i'll try to dig into it till i know, because that makes a lot of difference oin the way to getting 12.x MB/s throughput. Should I ever find out, i'll let you know. Thanks a lot!

ZOMG what an idiot!  Been doing this kinda stuff for years now and it's the little things you mess up on ;p A crossover resovled the connectivity issue but now I cannot browse out via Mozilla from that box..hmm.  Must be a rules issue now.  I can ping the DMZ interface so at least those two are talking.  W00T.

in testing I got about 60mbytes/sec through a £250 desktop plus a PCIe intel server gigabit NIC if that is any use to you. you'll pay a lot more for a low power quiet semi-embedded system than a standard desktop…..