The button is connected to a GPIO pin that is tested at power on.  Steve in Customer Service told me that there was a problem with the button not working with pfSense 2.2.1 but that it should be fixed in 2.2.2. However, it doesn't work for me even with 2.2.2.  I tried several times. It isn't helped by the button being recessed and the power socket is about 1cm away from the button.  The power plug has to be connected while depressing the button with a screwdriver which requires some manual dexterity because they are so close.  It would be much easier if there was a power switch. The button not resetting was awkward because the console was not working after reloading the configuration, and SSH was turned off.  Reloading the configuration appears to remove the line in loader.conf that sets the serial port to 0x2f8. I had to resort to reinstalling from a USB key, modifying the configuration file to enable SSH, and reloading the configuration.  Then I could use SSH to add the correct serial port address to loader.conf.

I believe that even if you do get pfSense running on the RCC-VE 2440 from Netgate, you do not gain the Intel QuickAssist technology - I could be mistaken as this seems to be a bit of a vague/grey area but I think that driver does not exist in the community version of the firmware (?) and you only get it if you buy your appliance from the pfSense Store. Hope I am wrong but … ?  ??? FreeBSD is not Linux, but if there is a new Linux kernel set, to support and use the Intel QuickAssist technology, it could really be that someone must before that we all can use this writing code using the from Intel offered API for this new technology. So why now the question FreeBSD and also on top pfSense should not be profiting from that? Either by going with a brand new netgate, pfSense or a Supermicro board? Intel has published a new Linux kernel patch-set that adds Quick Assist Technology support to Linux along with a driver to handle their … i see. not sure if netgate installs pfsense on the rcc-ve-2440. their webpage states if one wants that then to goto pfsense and buy their appliance and support. i certainly could have read that incorrectly though. i know for the APUr unit it will come with pfsense installed. As shown on their website it will be shipped with CentOS 7.1 on the nand storage, eMMC, but if you want to get your box pre installed with pfSense it will be also installed on the eMMC storage! Only if you will be getting a mSATA extra they install it on this medium! there is a cost diff for my personal funds but supporting pfsense is a good thing to do too. it is a top notch firewall.  i'll check with netgate this week and get low down on if they actually install pfsense on these new rcc-ve-2440. Ok this is something each of us must decide by it selfs. interesting point about the Intel QA tech. not even sure i would even need that as this is for home use, more insurance is probably a good thing. AES-NI and intel QuickAssist would be speeding up some things like snort, suricata, compression and encryption. For those small Atom CPUs it would be a real benefit related to the faster and bigger Internet lines. i see the concerns & issues that you brought up at this link: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=91870.0 The same thinking fals as I see it, if someone get those appliances pre installed with CentOS or pfSense the entire OS will be installed on the eMMC storage, really ready to go! Only if he wants to install on another medium it would be installed there, so in my eyes it is not a wasted part of the unit. But getting the CentOS on the eMMC and then installing pfSense on the mSATA but no want to wipe out the CentOS and if this is causing trouble pfSense team or netgate should be wrong is in my eyes not a real problem of them but more of the user it selfs. i too find it a bit odd that the eMMC isn't used for the OS and a SSD for say snort, squid, backups, etc?  but this is CentOS and not nanoBSD, ?, and maybe that makes a difference. It is like the older days, but there nobody was complaining!!!! if you install pfSense on a CFCard that is mounted read only, you cant use squid + squidguard + av scann and snort together! You will need a HDD/SSD or mSATA for the caching procedure at all. And this would be also not really matching on the eMMC because on the read/write cycles and it is better in performance like the old CFCards, but the mSATA is able to be changed if failing. but for home use, i don't want to have to be reconfiguring after every upgrade either. not sure i even have the skills for that these days. Then perhaps the Alix APU platform is the right thing for you! Could this be? There you get no nand storage soldered on board and a SATA or mSATA is a must be. it won't stop me from buying the unit, just seems kinda odd about the eMMC not being used at all while i'm contemplating the extra storage option of 30GB or 128GB. And what would be the alternative? Without eMMC you must buy a mSATA or industrial CFCard as in the older days and if one is failing or burned you need also another one.

When you get your Unifi controller set up, dont forget to add DHCP option 43 (string) with a ascii-to-hex converted value of your controller's IP if you want "zero touch" adoption of your WAPs.  pfSense makes this easy (put it in additional bootp/dhcp options area). Here's a neat website that does the IP-to-HEX conversion for you: http://www.miniwebtool.com/ip-address-to-hex-converter/?ip=8.8.8.8 :)

Thanks for posting this been looking at those little boxes for a while thinking about them. OpenVPN with AES should be fast as there is hardware side silicon.

Now. I change my plan about use Dell Computer to install PFSense. I plan to buy new computer. Ok that would be perhaps better! My Idea. Buy something pfSense would be really matching. 1.) Use ASUS Mainboard and Intel Core i5 Gen 4 and Disable LAN on Board. 150 € board + 150 € CPU = ~300 € 2.) Use Intel LAN Card (Gigabit) 2 card ~50 € 3.) Use HDD Sata III 1 TB. ~70 € 4.) Use RAM DDR III 8 Gb. ~100 € If have your idea or problem please advice me. ^^ If you need WiFi urgent and a mSATA should be an option or you want to insert a modem and a SIM slot is needed you can get some new firewalls here: nertgate Shop pfSense Shop If you don´t need this all or want connect a WiFi AP and a SSD or SATA_DOM is also going you can buy also something to self assemble from Supermicro. Supermicro  A1SRi-2558F ~260 € Supermicro Chassis SC101i ~80 € 2 x 4 GB DDR3-1600 ECC RAM ~80 € Samsung840 Pro 256 GB ~120 €

Its your lucky day Gigabyte GA-9SISL Alternatively you can go by the similar looking ASRock board ASRock Intel Avoton C2750 2.4GHz/DDR3/SATA3/V&2GbE/Mini-ITX Motherboard and CPU Combo C2750D4I COLOR BOX

yes. If somebody doesn't have/need for higher bandwidths than what's benchmarked in my linked post, it's a rock solid piece of hardware.

Update: Setting PowerD to: High-adaptive and using iperf from pc to pc, i get approx 650-700mpbs

What about a 100mb connection on OpenVPN? If not the whole 100 Mb what would you think it would get up to

@uvillx: It looks like the APU is out of stock for at least 2 months. http://store.netgate.com/APU4.aspx Says in stock when I looked this morning. NanoBSD is good enough for most home users, and what I would recommend in your case, unless you just want an SSD and the ability to run SQUID and SQUIDGuard, and have other benefits of persistent storage.  With an SSD and the non nano distribution of pfsense you REALLY need to have a UPS to plug your firewall in to.  A couple of nights ago I had to reload the OS on one that sustained several power failures which hosed the filesystem.

There is a different driver for the APU LEDs that makes them show up as /dev/led entries, but the licensing on the driver was a bit odd, I'm not sure that ever got properly cleared up to include it.

putting a disk or SSD in a nanoBSD system and using it for /var and /tmp. Exactly this I was meant!

I see, then it's no point in that solution and i didn't expect a 80-100$ switch to be capable to new fancy only basic stuff For sure they do but not in way you where trying it. As I wrote at first only between two devices you will be able to set up one the LAG! I probably go for other switches with 10gbe ports, uplinks and stackable functionality. It is not a must be, but one other try out to safe ports and gaining the real throughput on top. The Switches from Zyxel you are using are great, and if you set up only 2 LAGs from the pfSense to each switch would be really sufficient enough I think. Stackable would be good if the entire network is growing up. The D-Link DGS1510-24 is offering 10 GBit/s for a smaller budget. But all this is also pending on what you have also inside of your network! I mean the whole network topology. To connect the FreeNAS to the switches you could also go by static LAGs by setting them up then manually and not over the LACP and then choosing something like weighted round robin if you are using iSCSI. Would also help a little bit more to saturate the LAG links. 1x HP NC364T PCI Express Quad Port Gigabit Server Adapter This would be powerful enough in my eyes to set up a LAG with two lines.

@VSpike Could also being interesting for to to solve it out or better understand it. Tuning & Troubleshooting Network Cards

The NICs are server grade ones. The computer has 4Gbytes RAM. Attached is the MBUF usage graph. thanks [image: MBUF.png] [image: MBUF.png_thumb]

It depends on your budget. The Samsung EVO series don't have a TBW spec, but our long term endurance testing has shown that they fail much earlier than the Samsung PRO series.  There's a very clear difference between TLC and MLC - we have a couple of 840 Pro SSDs that have exceeded 1.5 petabytes and still going, and I've seen reports of some with over 2 petabytes.  The difference in cost is a couple of hundred dollars between the 850 EVO and 850 PRO which I think is well worth it. However, I would suggest you look at the Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe SSDs.  NVMe SSD storage is substantially faster than SATA based SSDs, running around 2.4GB/s read speed, 1.2 GB/s write speed, with around 400K+ IOPS on random writes.  The 400GB version is around $500 and the 1200GB version is $1200, as I recall. Unlike the Intel P3700 series which is intended for data center use, the 750 series is intended for enthusiast/professional users.  I've been stress testing a couple of 1200GB drives in a lab for a couple of weeks, and based on the early results I think we'll be ordering a lot of them.

Have you checked to see that you have the TX side of the SFP in the switch connected to the RX side of the card, and vice versa?  Unlike copper ports, which in most modern switches are auto-uplink,  with fiber you must make sure TX is connected to RX and not TX to TX, RX to RX. Your switch is a managed switch.  Have you logged into the management interface of your switch and checked the port configuration and status?

It's a good question. I have run up against something similar (no exactly the same error messages from the disk driver) on a Jetway board: https://149.20.54.209/threads/installing-freebsd-10-0-on-jetway-board-fails.44819 The system with this board is stuck on pfSense 2.1.5 I am not in a position to do mess about with trying to load FreeBSD 8.3, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1 on it to see when it goes wrong and to push the issue upstream. The post I referred to there is going nowhere. I guess nobody cares, and for me it is few hundred dollars loss to buy new hardware some time - have to think of something to do with the old hardware. There seems to have been some underlying wholesale change in some disk drivers at some point and it is broken on some (presumably less used with FreeBSD) hardware. Bit disappointing when these sort of changes happen that "randomly" junk people's hardware.

ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8 So perhaps the Intel NIC is not able to use the given maximum from 2 x 10 GBit/s and 2 x 1 GBit/s. But you could this test out by using a server stress test tool like the one from PRTGs website this would be suficent to produce some really hardcore traffic and you will be able to see how the NIC is acting on this stress test perhaps also a good test to see whats your pfSense hardware is able to perform. Here is the link: Webserver Stress Tool In the upper right corner you are able to switch to the English language.

great news please  add [solved] to your thread, so others with similar problems can find a fix quicker