Any updates on this build? Have a friend interested in trying out the Sempron 2650.

It is possible but your chances are not great.  :-\ Unless of course you're actually a 1337 bsd dev.  ;) There are some instructions somewhere on forum for doing it  and I think I remember reading a blog post about it. You may be able to permanently mode switch it using a Huawei utility or by sending it the correct code in Linux which might negate the issue. There is a further issue with using devices that appear as cdce interfaces. If they go down for whatever reason (power saving, network issue etc) pfSense does not handle it well. It doesn't expect to have interfaces removed at any random time. Steve

Lots to worry about, mostly if you break the syntax in the file you could break OpenVPN or other areas of the system as a consequence. Otherwise, aside from the fact that you'll have to redo the edit after a firmware update, it should be OK. Keep the gun pointed away from your foot during the process.

Changed fan thresholds with IPMItools. Now no warning is displayed but red LED is constantly flashing on the MB…

Just to make you feel safer - The old complaints came from 2013… Since 2014 new releases: http://www.amazon.com/Barebone-Embedded-NF9D-2550-Motherboard-AD3RTLANG/product-reviews/B007GGGBM2 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful 5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Service and Amazing Product, February 19, 2014 By Brad Downs - See all my reviews Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Intel Barebone System Embedded Kit/ Jetway NF9D-2550 Dual LAN Intel Atom D2550 1.86GHz Mini-ITX Motherboard, W/Jetway AD3RTLANG: 3 x Gigabit LAN Port Daughterboard, 2GB DDR3 SODIMM Memory, M350 Enclosure, PicoPSU-80 80W DC-DC power supply (Personal Computers) I normally don't write reviews, but I am so impressed that I had to. AMAZINGLY FAST SHIPPING!! It said it would take 2-3 business days to ship, then 3-5 more days to be delivered. It shipped the same day and arrived ONLY 2 business days later!! AWESOME! Product is exactly as advertised. Worked beautifully! I needed to use an external USB CD drive to load the OS and was concerned about the BIOS detection and boot. Booted up the box, BIOS detected the USB CD drive by default and booted from it. The CPU fan that it comes with is as quiet as a mouse. It does come with the external AC to DC adapter. The processor is the Atom D2550 as the title specifies, not the D550 the description says. I am using this as a pfSense router (2.1) and it detected all the NICs without issue and is running beautifully! (Still - I'd buy the board from newegg, buy the riser and build the system myself)  Or try asrock if it makes you happy.  Just offering options.

At least one user successfully swapped the bios rom in his Sonicwall with that from a different box. If you understand what that does you may have some idea how lucky he was.  ;) Always an option though. https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=67330.0 Steve

Looks great - one question - where did you get the power from to run your fan?

Sounds like a useful individual.  ::) Steve

we ship pfSense 2.1.5 and don't have to disable any cores, or ACPI. hint: you're doing it wrong.  (bad magic!)

thanks guys for the replies ill keep looking.

Gargoyle works great on a lot of the TP-Link hardware… nice interface on top of OpenWRT.  Personally, I think most TP-Link hardware hits a sweet spot between cost and quality.

@rmm: Hi, Building a new firewall and I want to run the hardware by you folks to make sure it'll handle my requirements. There will be dual 1G WANs, a 1G LAN, and a 100M WAN for out of band access.  Minimal firewall rules, no NAT or IPsec.  We run unbound and ntpd but no other services.  We may start running snort though. Looking at the following hardware: Intel Core i5-3470 Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.2GHz SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCI-LN4F-O LGA 1155 Intel C204 ATX Intel Xeon E3 Server Motherboard (4 x Intel 82574L NICs) 8 G RAM SYBA SD-ADA50024 2.5" SATA/USB To Compact Flash Adapter SanDisk Extreme SDCFX-008G-X46 8 GB compact flash Mainly wanted to check that a quad i3 is sufficient, and that the Intel 82574L NICs will work well. Thanks in advance! Will be fine, even when running snort/suricata. NICs are supported. You could have went for a dual core cpu if your only intention is to run stock pfsense, since the current version of pf is single threaded. That's going to change with the next version though, which is just around the corner. Getting a quad core future proofs your setup. And also allows you to fully utilize snort/suricata on all your WANs. Only thing I would change is the storage. Get something bigger (in the 80GB range) if you intend to log/capture everything, including the kitchen sink.

Greetings: Ugreen 20241 works well if it's on the LAN side with static IP. It's inexpensive ($9) and you can get it from Newegg. On the WAN side it works but drops the IP every once in a while. HK

Fixed. Router was blocking the source.

needs better cooling and more voltage to do same properly. I don't see the benefit as its a dated cpu.