The CPU has AES-NI at 3.10 GHz https://ark.intel.com/products/129949/Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5400T-Processor-4M-Cache-3_10-GHz Should be more than adequate for your needs.

Good result then. Thanks for updating. Steve

I've got the v1 of that switch and..... Works fine as an unmanaged switch. Steve

Any of the i5s on that list will easily pass 1Gbps. Of firewall/NAT at least. Steve

A home setup for wife and kids IS mission critical, believe me.

Didn't see a response so I'm not sure if you found your answer but I thought I'd respond in case someone else searches for the same thing. The Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4 was discontinued and is being replaced with the new version (I350-T4V2) which have the AUX Power component changes that will result in a decrease of in-rush current during power supply start-up. Product functionality does not change. For more information on the product change, you may refer to the Product Change Notification (PCN113232 - 01)

Great, yea speedtest.net should be pretty consistent. That NIC looks like it's more than capable. Did you verify if it's a legitimate Intel card? Knockoffs are problem these days. If it has a Yotta mark, that could be checked. Otherwise, try getting in touch with Intel. I had to go through that process with my two intel NICs.

I'd switch to the AMD system when you have time, you'll need the AES support for pfSense 2.5. Since FreeBSD 12 won't be released until October or November & pfSense 2.5 will be built on that, I'm thinking it'll probably be early 2019 before we see it.

Oh, good result! Looks like some resource conflict there then. If you don't need the AGP drivers there then using that hint is a perfectly good solution there. The actual 'correct' thing is probably to get a BIOS update that sets up those devices without a conflict but that seems... unlikely! Steve

Due to my knowledge from security onion(an IDS distribution), snort in it will use 1 core per snort process(cpu core, not cpu thread) and each snort process can handle 200Mbps throughput. I haven't try snort in pfSense with a high power CPU.

@weimaraner Спасибо модем Huawei E8372h-153 определяется как ue0 интефейс успешно и это не приводик к переназначению существующих интерфейсов

i have a SG 2220 that will. i also have a quad core Dual nic minnowboard that will

@djanke: What I saw in the picture is that the slot itself shows the metal connections up to the length of what would be an x4 card (11+21). After that it is just black. it's an off the shelf x4-wired x16 slot. I'm sure the cost of the extra pins is much lower than the cost of manufacturing an oddball slot with exactly the right number of pins. I doubt they're lying about only implementing 2 lanes from the CPU. It's kinda a bummer they didn't implement an M.2 slot.

Ok, that sounds more like pfSense is not in bridge mode but is routing. I think a diagram showing what IPs exist where could help a lot here. The output from the pfSense console showing the interfaces would also. Reading between the lines though it sounds like you might just need a static route in pfSense pointing to the subnet behind your router. Assuming it really is routing. If it's just a switch you might be trying to add that subnet to the same network segment as the pfSense LAN. Steve

What's the advantage for the SG-3100 over the SG-4860? It depends what your use case is. Do you actually need 6 separate subnets? The total active connections figure is limited by the available RAM. Steve

So I took Grimson's advice and ended up ordering a 6" 44 PIN ribbon (one I had was too short) and was able to conjure up a pretty straight forward mounting solution for the drive as well.  However - I think I may have other problems as I'm not able to boot a new CF card nor the drive.  I've started a new post on that - just figured I'd let you all know.  Appreciate the replies on this thread however. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=148139.msg804702#msg804702

Try a 2.4.4 snapshot. The more people test it the more likely we are to find any issues. Very much not for production at this point though. https://www.pfsense.org/snapshots/ Steve

Thanks for the suggestion. I have a dual WAN setup so need a atleast 3 NICs. The M350 case comes with a 150W external brick is very well ventilated. How about low power boards like C2558 and C2758 from Supermicro? The only downside i see with them is they dont have active cooling on the heatsink. Hopefully, the ones being sold in the market dont have the nasty bug which causes them to fail in high temperatures.

Find what is eating the disk space and clean it up.