Thanks for the reply. In answer to your question, yes, there are 2 USB ports hiding under the hole on the right. Yes as well to the question of a power supply being included. Sorry for not mentioning that.

The nice thing about this setup is that it comes with 2 CF cards (one loaded with freedos for flashing the bios) and also 2 cases (red and black).

I'll shoot you a PM as well.

Did you end up getting the Mini-Box Jetway ITX PC?  I'm getting one and curious what you thought of it if you did get it?

It would probably be a good thing to file a FreeBSD problem report (PR) on this and hope it comes to the attention of John Baldwin. John used to work for Compaq/HP (and still does as far as I know) and has been quite attentive to issues like this in the past. You can lodge a FreeBSD problem report at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html and use category kern for kernel problems.

Thought i would add that i have built my system now anyway, one of my main concerns was power, as I generally don't see the point in wasting in it for wasting sake, just so that i can say well if i ever need to push 500Mbps of traffic i can, because i wont ever have to do that.

I built up the following system;

Intel D945GCLF using a 1.6GHz atom processor
2GB DDR 2 533
On board 10/100 WAN
Intel Pro GT 1000 LAN
Small Cube case

Now it uses 35w of power and sits nicely in the bottom shelf of my computer desk, rather than the probable 200W my main rig was using to power all the fans hardware.

Last bump… need to get rid of this.  $300 shipped?  That's nearly 50% off for what is essentially a new machine!

I read somewhere on the forum that one way could be to run vmstat -i.
Run vmstat -i first then create some traffic that would use the crypto card if it was working and check with vmstat -i again and see if anything has changed for the crypto card.

My guess is site-to-site VPN connections.  At that speeds sounds like he wants to bridge to two large offices together.

He may also be thinking about incorporating off-site backups into this VPN scheme.

He maybe better off just splitting up the site-to-site VPN connections into channels.  This way he'll get the total throughput he wants and added bonus of backup network connection.

I would attempt this with instructions similar to these

http://www.fsck.it/blog/?p=52

Just use pfsense instead of monowall.

Yeah they have good stuff. I know you're in .au, for those elsewhere they ship worldwide I believe. I know at least a couple of our pfSense support customers in the US buy hardware from them. Netgate also has the 1U WRAP/ALIX case they sell.

One of their boxes they donated to us in my rack, first picture here:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,12975.msg71921.html#msg71921

They'll work fine with 1.2.1, actually better as the newer FreeBSD performs better.

My firewall has 1 x vr NIC, 1 x rl, 1 x ath and 1 x udav, I've been running some variant of pfSense 1.2.1 for some months now and can't recall ever seeing similar interrupt percentages to what you see.

If you are curious to explore this issue further, perhaps you could  take the interfaces out of polling mode and give the shell command vmstat -i to see interrupt rates on  rl0 and rl2. Are these interfaces in promiscuous mode (possibly bridged with another interface)? Are they connected to a hub rather than a switch? Do you have something "new" happening causing more network traffic?

@Cino:

dont use channel 6. I had the same problem with a netgear card. Some reason the wifi card doesn't like channel 6.

Back on topic:
The problems on WiFi channel 6 might be related to a special mode like "Super G" or "SpeedBooster". Atheros and Broadcom as mfr's invented different incompatible standards to double the max. throughput by bonding channels. I seem to remember having read about it some time ago.

Parallels Desktop only allows you to enable or disable USB emulation, which likely is the equivalent of enabling or disabling the emulation of the USB host controller.
After that, you can only decide which attached USB devices should belong to the Mac OS and which to the virtual machine.
Actually, one can't even assign real USB devices to a virtual machine before one enables USB support in the virtual machine emulation. So from that point of view it's fool proof. Of course, that doesn't guarantee it's bug free…

Hi,

Try searching deviso…may be on wiki.

cheers,

There is more information on the Alix boards at http://www.pcengines.ch/alix.htm There are variants with 2 or 3 NICs on board and 1 or more mini PCI slots and wireless mini-PCI adapters.

If you have a VLAN capable switch you could get by with 1 NIC running multiple VLANs. In the last few months there have been a few posts on VLANs with suggestions for economical VLAN capable switches.

Typically FreeBSD is very good at auto-negotiation.  I know I thought I had a mis-configuration before and it turned out to be the T-1 router from our Telco.  You can give this a go, but know that it's risky.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,9434.0.html

dude,

That custom 2u case is sweet!!!  You should do a write up so others can copy the idea.

-V

Is your power supply capable of supplying the current needed by the dual NIC PCI card?

Maybe the box was built to a price (or size) and consequently the power supply doesn't have much margin.

Send an email with the output you pasted here and the output of a pciconf -lv and send it to freebsd-net@freebsd.org plus freebsd-stable@freebsd.org so the driver author can give you a propper answer.
Usually it is an id issue which is a simple adding the id to the driver and recompile but better confirm with the driver author.