• pfSense custom hardware not showing temperature sensors

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    First check the BIOS can see any temperature values. Usually they will display at least CPU temp, often some other thermal zones where sensors exist. If those are all enabled they are usually passed to the OS via ACPI but it maybe another crappy BIOS that has DSDT values tested, and marked as, Windows only. In which case just make sure you're on the latest BIOS. Fixing that is almost certainly more effort that it's worth. The last time this came up: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/137205/temperature-readings This is also Zen micro-architecture CPU so the same applies. It may require amdsmn which only appeared in FreeBSD 12. Steve Steve
  • Hardware for large apartment complex?

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    @oldfart I would contact our sales team so they could discuss the best possible hardware for your scenario: Phone: +1 (512) 646-4100 Email: sales@netgate.com
  • Pfsense crashing, always rebooting.

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    Yup NMI is almost 100% a hardware fault. In the 0.1% cases where is seems to be OK with other OSes it's something specific that FreeBSD is hitting and there's nothing you can do about it anyway. So swap it out. Steve
  • Intel cryptographic accelerator support

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  • RIVERBED 4 port NIC how to convert it into a regular NIC

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    @suplantor Just making assumptions but... Shouldn't the Silicom drivers work? Not sure which model you have, but start with the link below and drill down to your card. Drivers available for multiple OSs including FreeBSD. https://www.silicom-usa.com/cats/server-adapters/networking-bypass-adapters/
  • Installing pfSense on SmoothWall Appliances

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    @stephenw10 Thanks :) Work now
  • Consideration around optimal performance for new install

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    @stephenw10 Thanks Steve, yep the VLAN biz will all be handled at the switch, the pfSense facing port is a trunk and from there just as you cautioned, each port will need be placed in an access mode for the proper VLAN it needs to join, that's a manual task and care will be the key playbook! Thank you ~B
  • Upgrade or new build

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    Go Ryzen 3200g, gigabyte b450 ds3h, 16gb ddr4, 128-256gb ssd, dual intel lan. Works like a champ for me
  • pfsense on banana pi r64 (BPI-R64)

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    Short answer: you can't. To do so would require compiling from source and creating all the required components for that specific board. ARM is not like x86, there isn't a generic installer for all ARM devices. Steve
  • Dell PowerEdge R620 10GbE pfSense server

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    @aasimenator a Six core Xeon wouldn't be able to handle 10GbE? higher cpu frequency would be better also a 6 year old cpu is far less performant then a recent one ... i would even dare to say that a current-gen i3 cpu would perform better with pfsense than that xeon you are using
  • pfSense custom build hardware with Realtek port dilemma

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    Go to Diag > Command Prompt and execute mount -p. You should see something like: /dev/diskid/DISK-9E18E959s2a / ufs rw,noatime 1 1 devfs /dev devfs rw 0 0 /dev/diskid/DISK-9E18E959s1 /boot/u-boot msdosfs rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/md0 /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/md1 /var ufs rw 2 2 devfs /var/dhcpd/dev devfs rw 0 0 You can see on that SG-3100 the root filesystem / is mounted 'noatime'. If yours is not go to Diag > Edit File an open /etc/fstab. Edit the / line to include noatime. So it would probably just be rw. Change it to rw,noatime. Note that breaking the fstab with a typo will probably make the system unbootable until it's corrected so.... Reboot to apply that change. Run mount -p again to be sure. @Gertjan said in pfSense custom build hardware with Realtek port dilemma: edit : wtf : @stephenw10 : more then 18 K posts ... Yeah it's a problem. I'm trying to cut down! Steve
  • [solved] One Intel and one Realtek NIC - which one for WAN?

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    Steve, thanks a lot for your elaborated answer. Actually I'm running Intel's NIC on LAN side and now I know I made the right choice.
  • Over 20Gbps throughput question

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  • Problems with NC532m hardware

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    Can you spoof the MAC addresses back to their original values? All 6 interfaces are shown? bce0-5? Steve
  • Hardware Fortigate with embedded PFSense

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    Probably not. Fortigate used special purpose chips (usually ASICs) in their devices to get the throughput they need and those are not accessible without their code. The 90D appears no different: Combines a RISC-based CPU with Fortinet’s proprietary SPU content and network processors for unmatched performance So you might get the management plane running pfSense if that part is x86 but you won't get any of switch ports available and performance will be..... limited! Or it may just not be possible at all. Steve
  • Intel i350t4 firmware flash issue

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    How does it fail when you try to use it? Does the card work in the Optiplex if you boot some other OS? Steve
  • PfSense hardware to best compile and run application software or firewall

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    If you are looking to have a go at compiling pfSense, or anything, you would not likely be using the same hardware. pfSense requires relatively low powered hardware to run but you probably want something much more powerful to compile on unless you don't mind waiting. Also pfSense itself does not contain any compile tools so compiling and running on the same hardware would require some sort of dual boot setup with FreeBSD. Steve
  • PfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 attempting to USB tether

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    Hmm, curious. I'm not aware of any hardware that won't run 2.5.... yet. Do you have the backtrace or console output leading up to the panic?
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    No, there is a huge difference between those drivers. I doubt it could ever run on 2.4.X Steve
  • Crashes on APU2

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    I seem to be having some instability issues with my APU2C. It was running OK for over a week. This morning the orange lights on each NIC were not flashing and all connected clients were receiving a self-assigned IP address. The only way to resolve this was to reboot I had a look through the logs but couldn't find anything. My grafana dashboard shows that something odd started to occur around midnight: [image: 1573587644386-screen-shot-2019-11-13-at-06.39.40-resized.png] CPU temperature on average is about 53 degrees Celsius and it is running the latest BIOS v4.10.0.2||spoiler||
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