x11sdv-8c-tp8f (xeon-d 2146NT) compatibility?
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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.
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@stephenw10 OK good, I was going to submit a redmine for the manual since it still listed it as plus only, glad to see that the manual is accurate hah.
Thanks!
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Bug for the rogue gui element: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/16451
