While the slot is a full length 16X size physically, the specs say it's only 1 lane. So it should work no problem! that's too bad i like to saw and file things  ;D

This is what I'm building soon for Gigabit WAN. (We currently only have 107/5, but ISP is building a gigabit fiber network as we speak, should be out be end of the year) Thermaltake Urban S1 Case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133257 Corsair 450M 450W 80 Plus Gold PSU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139058 Core i3 4130T Haswell 2.9GHz 35W TDP http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116947 MSI H81 mATX Mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130752 4GB Mushkin Blackline PC1600 DDR3 (already have so not included in price 500GB Seagate HDD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148767 2x Intel PCI Express Gigabit NICS http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106033 Total cost is $418 after shipping Should be more than enough for your needs as well. which is why I posted it.

I like my Intel i350-T2. I guess there is a newer version according to Intel Ark, i350-T2V2

OK I got it working. My brain hurts. I searched and tried all kinds of crap and what I ended up doing was having to add the following to /usr/local/pkg/lcdproc.inc case "hd44780":               $config_text .= "[{$lcdproc_config['driver']}]\n";               $config_text .= "driverpath=/usr/local/lib/lcdproc/\n";               $config_text .= "Port=0x378\n";               $config_text .= "Device=/dev/lpt0\n";               $config_text .= "ConnectionType=winamp\n";               $config_text .= "Speed=0\n";               $config_text .= "Keypad=no\n";               $config_text .= "Backlight=no\n";               $config_text .= "OutputPort=no\n";               $config_text .= "Charmap=hd44780_default\n";               $config_text .= "DelayMult=3\n";               $config_text .= "DelayBus=true\n";               $config_text .= "Size={$lcdproc_config['size']}\n";               break;

@stephenw10: From FreeBSD directly: http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.3/ Ah-hah! I was missing the "-Archive/old-releases" section of the directory tree. Thanks very much for all your help.

@cfipilot: @gonzopancho: I've considered putting the PSRs out for Gold members, but haven't reached a decision on same. However, given that I pushed the drivers into pfSense 2.1.1 (April 2014) specifically for y'all, you really weren't running pfSense on them before we were selling them (early, early 2014). pfSense will auto-tune these things soon enough. Any update on releasing the custom settings? Run 2.2.

People are running in VirtualBox though. Where are you measuring the cpu load? PfSense version? VB version? Probably best to ask in 'Virtualization installations and techniques' though. Steve

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-MHN4.cfm add ecc ram and a hd/ss/dsata-dom overkill but it works

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5018/SYS-5018A-MHN4.cfm a more expensive option, but it will work

Also, does the fact of these being virtual machine hosts affect the ability to direct-attach?  I know I'll need to get NICs which are suitable for virtual network connections, can't remember the name for it.  But will that affect the ability to directly attach? Thanks.

hi steve, as u said,the mentioned hardware m3550 do anything at 24Mbps, i think 24Mbps is so terrible… i will build pfsene with some features like that....if u are right ,  kill me myself

@jahonix: @Harvy66: … or a Layer2 1Gb with 10Gb uplinks. Cisco SG500X-24-K9-G5 but it's managed L3 IIRC. I've got a pair of the 48-port versions of those at home in my test lab.  Great switches from a functionality standpoint, though one shipped with a bad fan that I've yet to have replaced.

@Phishfry: 22x SATA ports! :o Hard to see where the market for that is. Steve

…a distribution-channel in Europe... @gonzopancho: Know of any good ones? osnet.eu varia-store.com meconet.de But they might not be distributors, more like vendors probably. Dealt with all 3 in the past on various occasions.

That hardware should be more than sufficient to run Squid as long as you don't set a huge cache size. However you probably won't see much advantage unless you have a lot of replicated downloads. The modern web is so dynamically generated that cache hits are usually low. It will depend on your usage of course but personally I wouldn't. Try it and see.  :) Steve

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Robi, The UART protocol for this IEI AUPS device is well documented that someone could implement this easily in NUT. http://www.ieiworld.com/redirect.ashx?code=3&id=0A175420370520988327&dest=null

I don't think so though i'd love to wrong.  ;) https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mwl&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+10.1-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html Seems to indicate it does support 802.11N but I'm sure I read somewhere it doesn't support anything faster than 54Mbps. Hmm. Steve

For reference it's worth reading through these threads: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=72142.0 https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=71949.0 Steve