Use Diagnostics -> Edit file from the webConfigurator, it does this automatically when you save the file.

@sullrich:

And MUCH MUCH more noise!  I would not want to sleep anywhere near a nexcom.

And thats the old three way trade-off…  Pick any two of FAST QUIET CHEAP

Silent / near silent computers are relatively easy to build, but that comes at a price.  And More Speed makes heat, which has to be removed somehow.  And airflow is the most common way for doing that....  etc etc.

Sometimes I wonder if its reasonable to cool an entire 19" cabinet with some hefty large slow speed fans, rather than having lots of spuddy little fans whirling at top speed.

It probably is power supply related.  The ones that ship with the Soekris boxes can barely handle the unit itself (12v @1A if I recall).  I went to Radio Crap er Shack and picked up a 15V @1.5A for my WRAPs - the Soekris should handle the same supply.  12-18V if I remember correctly.  I've seen 4801's lock up with the original supply (and you'll see that on the Soekris lists too).

–Bill

THX a lot i will order a 3ware card

You want a remote syslog facility.  Logs on pfSense are stored in a ram disk in CLOG format.

@Grey:

For such purpose I would recommend the Soekris 4801 and a 2,5" HDD - works just fine.

Which reminds me, it's time to put my 6GB drive back in my soekris after doing an install to it on my laptop so I can play around with packages (poor poor box) :)

–Bill

Search the m0n0 list, the guy who sold them answered that question somewhere. He said that they were custom build and there is nowhere to buy these. At least the ones he sells but maybe something similiar exists.

Anyway, at least this problem has a work-around.

Wow I didnt think of that, thanks! I really wanted to disable as much onboard stuff as possible to prevent CPU usage. Thats a great solution thanks alot, I feel kinda dumb now.

This thread is OLD.  Please let it DIE!

And please find a new translator… Whatever you are using is incomprehensible.

I would say check e-bay.

Currently wraps (266mhz) will push around 32 megabit.  So anything beyond a 500 mhz box with GOOD nics should be fine.

By GOOD I mean Intel or something as nice.

Good deal!  Glad its working.

I'll do the test next week if I can get my hands on a device with higher throughput than the soekris.
Thanks for the help.

Check our recommended vendors: http://pfsense.com/index.php?id=40

I just reset the resource configs, still cant see my network card :-(

PS: yea I know I have to instal freeradius on my own, that is not that hard, but sometimes SQL functionality freaks me out…. never installs as it should, although on RedHat installs are easy

OK - to answer my own question…

Based on this post [ http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/showmsg.php?id=73/62 ], I edited the /boot/loader.rc file on the ISO and added the following 2 lines to the very top:

set hw.ata.atapi_dma="0"
set hw.ata.ata_dma="0"

Then burned the ISO and booted - pfSense now loaded in PIO mode and everything worked fine.  The setting was retained during the install.

Question for the developers - Will the pfSense update process lose these changes or am I now good until I need to do a new full install?

For reference I used a trial of a program called UltraISO to edit the file.  You need to extract the file out of the iso, edit it, then paste it back in and save your new ISO.  http://www.ezbsystems.com/ultraiso/index.html

With "only" 40 mbit/s you won't push this device that hard that you'll notice a difference I think. Realteks put more load on the CPU than Intels but that shouldn't be noticable in your scenario and your bandwidth. You even should be able to go 100 mbit/s with this device (at least between 2 interfaces). I get full wirespeed with my C3 1 GHz with 2 Via Rhine nics.

Ah, so in order to do this, I'd have to have 4 nics in each server, 2 frontside, 2 backside.  Plus, those nics would have to support team failover on whatever OS they're using (mostly MacOS X Servers, and now I'm adding in about 10-11 FreeBSD servers).

Yay…that's a lot of nics.  Some of these boxes don't even have that many pci slots.  I know for fact that several of the on-board gigabit ports are supposed to replace the need for pci slots, so they only have 1-2 slots available.

Switch failover may be a lost cause in my environment.  I may just have to be ready with the swappable switch sitting there as a just-in-case measure. :(