x11sdv-8c-tp8f (xeon-d 2146NT) compatibility?
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I know this is quite the old thread, but instead of starting a new one, figured I'd ask a few things here first.
@q54e3w did you end up getting everything working on the 2146NT? I have a need for a proper 10 gigabit real world performance WAN/NAT firewall and am considering this CPU platform for it since it's newer than the 1541's hardware and has QAT built in. Did you manage to get QAT working as well?
Also debating if I just keep using my Netgate 6100 for now and wait for the possibility of something higher end than the 8200 to come out (that is newer than the 1541).
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@planedrop Appears to work fine.
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@q54e3w OK this is fantastic news, thanks a ton! Likely going with the same platform for my next firewall. Unless Netgate releases something more up-to-date than the 1541 before I pull the trigger on this lol
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Thanks from me too, for showing up the informations!
It would also my next platform for pfSense (pfSense+) it offers all for internal installing,
it comes with 3 M.2/miniPCIe slots for modem SSD and WiFi for internal installing.- Intel TurboBoost
- Intel Hyper-Threading
- Intel Quick Assist
- AES-NI
But one thing is irritating me a little bit, in your image is shown that there will be only 8 Cores and max. 2.3GHz
at the Intel site it is shown something like 8 cores and 16 threads and max. 3.0 GHz. So my question is the following,
have enabled Intel Hyper-threading and TurboBoost in the BIOS? -
@Dobby_ they may have SMT disabled, pfSense does support it though.
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Yes, if it was enabled it would show on the dashboard there.
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yes, Hyperthreading is disabled on this box hence the 8/8 rather than 8/16 you should expect.
Its also running a XL710L dual port card for multi-gig 2.5/5gbs support. It was originally supporting a 2.5g connection from a cable modem enabling 1.2gbps service.
The systems been 100% reliable running 4-5 load balanced OpenVPN connections and several wireguard tunnels too.
I do think its massively overpowered though. -
@q54e3w Thanks for all the info here, glad to hear it's working well and has been stable. I'm only considering it since I have an 8 gigabit WAN connection now.
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@planedrop Replying extremely late to an extremely old thread but hoping some of you are still around. I am hoping to deploy this similarly overpowered little machine as a primary firewall shortly. You guys mentioned you had no issues enabling QAT support out of the box? That has really been my only concern.
Cheers
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@latez I haven't done this build yet so I can't really say, but it should work as far as I'm able to tell.
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@latez Keep in mind that (as of this moment in time) pfSense CE does not support QAT only pfSense+ does.
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@InstanceExtension Yeah but you can get a pf+ license for any hardware you want, so it's still a viable thing to try and build a custom firewall that supports QAT.
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QAT is in base and hence in CE now.
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@stephenw10 OH yeah, forgot about that lol. Thanks for the reminder.
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@stephenw10 Sorry and maybe I am mistaken but I thought QAT was a Plus exclusive feature? I actually installed 2.8.1 just now, none of my QAT hardware appears to have been detected by default. Are there additional steps to enable the modules?
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@latez said in x11sdv-8c-tp8f (xeon-d 2146NT) compatibility?:
Are there additional steps to enable the modules?
What QAT hardware did you get and is it supported by FreeBSD FreeBSD Manual Pages: qat
In the Dashboard you would see something like below, if it's supported but not yet active:
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C3758R @ 2.40GHz 8 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 8 core(s) AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (active) QAT Crypto: Yes (inactive)If it is supported you have to enable it, see pfSense docu: Cryptographic Hardware
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Yeah you have to enable it in Sys > Adv > Misc.
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@stephenw10 I apologize for not being more clear. On FreeBSD 14.3
Where as I cannot kldload qat on the latest pfsense CE release. Hence the module is never loaded. You mentioned it should be in base now, am I doing something wrong?
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Hmm, I could be mistaken here. The GUI option is there but I don't see the module. Digging....
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Yup sorry that's my mistake. Too many test machines! QAT is still a Plus only feature.
Somehow the CE gui seems to show the option but it can't do anything. That looks like a bug.
