Hardware Sizing & Throughput Considerations
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Well i wouldn't call it a waste, but more an investment ;)
If you ever want a VPN you'll like the i3/5 since this is pretty CPU intensive load.
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With that hardware you could have somewhere near 30/4 all vpn trafic with snort+squid on top of it
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With that hardware you're probably set for the next 10 years! ::)
When your cable company offers you a 10G connection you may have to upgrade. :DI would expect VLAN traffic to show up the appropriate traffic graph. It seems odd that it wouldn't.
If you have WAN and then several VLANs to separate your internal network you should be able to see traffic from one VLAN to another one going through your pfSense box. This is often a problem if you need maximum throughput since all the VLANs are connected through one NIC with a limited bandwidth.
The fact that your not seeing any traffic might imply that the VLANs aren't setup correctly and can communicate directly.Steve
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Maybe i can make it a good hacintosh.
Steve,
The only traffic I see on the dash is WAN to VLAN and VLAN to WAN. Is there any documentation on VLAN? -
Vlan in general is well documented just use search engines
Vlan in pfsense? what you want to know it?
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I started a new thread for VLAN here..
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,39833.0.html
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The only traffic I see on the dash is WAN to VLAN and VLAN to WAN. Is there any documentation on VLAN?
Are you expecting to see VLAN to VLAN traffic show up on pfSense? In many cases VLAN to VLAN traffic is handled entirely within the switch and doesn't get to the router.
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Yes, that is what I am suspecting.
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Can anyone recommend a good Atom based passively cooled motherboard with the fastest Atom dual core processor. Dual gigabit with 8GB RAM support preferred but not a critical requirement.
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Are you expecting to see VLAN to VLAN traffic show up on pfSense? In many cases VLAN to VLAN traffic is handled entirely within the switch and doesn't get to the router.
I'm not actually running any VLANs at the moment so I can't check but if the VLANs are assigned as different interfaces in pfSense then I would expect any traffic between them to have to go through pfSense?
If traffic is bypassing pfSense and being routed by the switch then that's a big security hole! No?Steve
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That's what i thought first as well.
However i think he means with VLAN to VLAN traffic actually traffic within a single VLAN.
At least it's formulated like this in the other thread.
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Ah! I see.
Steve
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Yes, I took the question as VLAN traffic to same VLAN.
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Can anyone recommend a good Atom based passively cooled motherboard with the fastest Atom dual core processor. Dual gigabit with 8GB RAM support preferred but not a critical requirement.
Not sure if such a thing even exists.
The closest thing i currently see is this: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2i-specifications/
(only 1 core and quite expensive at that….)
I have one to play around and get about 600Mbit throughput.
Or in the future: http://www.fit-pc.com/fit-pc3/ (not yet out). -
Yep, I don't think you'll find an Atom chipset that supports 8GB.
Steve
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The i3's support 8GB and you can get them down to near Atom power levels. The hard part is finding the power supply in my experience.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/d510mo-intel-atom,2616-11.html
My i3 with an ATX board and 3 PCI NICs idles at 40W, but that's with a 430W PSU.
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The graphs at that link are quite revealing. Those desktop Atoms have no powersaving features. Look at the D510, 28W at 0 load, 33W at 100% load. :o The Netbook atoms are much better <10W at idle.
Steve
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fit PC is overrated and extremely expensive for the hardware config.
Yes I realized 8GB is not achievable for Atom mobo's yet. Which is the best Atom mobo with the fastest Atom processor that I can get right now? I may switch to FTTH in the coming months and would definitely need good WAN to LAN throughput.
How can I get the power down for the i5 Sandy Bridge I have right now? The thermaltake enclosure has zero air circulation and my processor runs 62C at idle times.. yeah I know it's hot. To make matters worse the PSU is almost touching the processor.. it's that close.. so a lot of heat is generated and no fans except of the PSU which is a joke. I even removed the stock thermal paste, got the expensive $15 CPU thermal paste from Staples and reapplied a good thin layer. But the that has not changed the temperature by even a degree. Tried cleaning and reapplying thrice but no change.
I need to get the power consumption on this down and maybe it will cool itself a bit.
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Have you enabled powerd?
Steve
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Yes. It tries to bring down the the processor to about 400 but it's not constant. Thinking about lowering the CPU and RAM power in the BIOS.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
Current: 400 MHz, Max: 3601 MHz
