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      n2qcn
      last edited by

      For those who prefer 2.0.2 rather than 2.1 use seedrs's re driver.

      
re1: <realtek 8111="" 8168="" b="" c="" cp="" d="" dp="" e="" f="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf0004000-0xf0004fff,0xf0000000-0xf0003fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5
re1: Using 1 MSI-X message
re1: Chip rev. 0x2c800000
re1: MAC rev. 0x00000000
miibus1: <mii bus="">on re1
rgephy1: <rtl8169s 8110s="" 8211b="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus1
rgephy1:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
re1: [ITHREAD]</rtl8169s></mii></realtek>
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        tim.mcmanus
        last edited by

        Nice system!

        The H61 system has enough bandwidth for everything in that system and then some.  Good low-power, out-of-sight pfSense box that would be capable of running a few packages on top of it.

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          holger.ernst
          last edited by

          Hello to all,

          incidentally I came across this very machine which seems to be a neat little thing for pfsensing.

          But I have some issues: First of all I had to detach the card reader to prevent a stop while booting (error accessing storage device 9454). No big deal, it is not needed.
          But then further during boot process (after loading scsi drivers, I guess) it stops reading from the attached usb disk drive saying something about read errors (and of cause the disk is ok).

          Any hints?

          Best regards, Holger

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            fragged
            last edited by

            You need to use the usb stick image to boot / install from usb. I had that too when I tried to put the live cd onto a usb stick and install from that.

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              holger.ernst
              last edited by

              Yes, I came to the same conclusion, but the device stops booting.
              It says ' Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense'
              then 'md0.uzip: 2962 x 65536 blocks'
              and stops there without any other message and does not react to any keyboard action.

              Any idea?

              Regards, Holger

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                holger.ernst
                last edited by

                OMG!

                I used the serial version…
                I'll try the 'real' one and report.

                Holger

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                  n2qcn
                  last edited by

                  It says ' Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/pfsense'

                  use a usb image, and plug it into the front ports, not the blue usb 3.0 ports in the back.

                  also note the

                  da0: <generic 9454="" storage="" device="">Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
                  da0: 40.000MB/s transfers

                  might claim 40MB, but its attached via usb 2.0 and while I did boot from SD for fun, many of my
                  usb sticks are faster than the SD card.</generic>

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                    n2qcn
                    last edited by

                    both ethernets work with seedrs's 2.0.2 driver in nano amd64 too.

                    here is a nano 2.0.2 amd64 dmesg

                    re1: <realtek pcie="" gbe="" family="" controller="">port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf0004000-0xf0004fff,0xf0000000-0xf0003fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5
                    re1: version:1.81
                    re1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                    options=18 <vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging>ether 80:ee:73:52:ef:36
                    inet6 fe80::82ee:73ff:fe52:ef36%re1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
                    inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
                    nd6 options=43 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                    status: active</full-duplex></performnud,accept_rtadv></vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></realtek>

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                      jimmy1987
                      last edited by

                      I was also looking at the DS61 but found the E drivers most of the time aren't working but after seeing your post I decided to order it :)
                      What pfsense version are you using on the ds61?

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                        n2qcn
                        last edited by

                        What pfsense version are you using on the ds61?

                        I was running esxi and played with several pfsense guests, but now I'm running 2.0.2 non-nano amd64.  It seems silly to have LAG and vlans config on the switch, storage and vswitch config in esxi then of all the pfsense config. We are competing with a $75 home router anyway, so how much config fun does one want? :-)

                        anyway, I have enough stuff on it now to not feel guilty.

                        
last pid: 47385;  load averages:  0.79,  0.73,  0.67               up 0+08:42:24  05:59:07
78 processes:  1 running, 74 sleeping, 3 zombie
CPU: 14.6% user,  0.0% nice,  2.2% system,  2.8% interrupt, 80.5% idle
Mem: 254M Active, 75M Inact, 541M Wired, 1428K Cache, 700M Buf, 6942M Free
Swap: 16G Total, 16G Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
16363 root          7  44    0   156M 63748K ucond   1 279:37 62.70% etherape
47411 root         10  44    0 93840K 37620K nanslp  2  36:00  5.86% ntop
  247 root          1  76   20  7084K  1292K kqread  1  22:44  0.00% check_reload_status
20478 root          1  44    0 16720K  3320K bpf     2   1:27  0.00% bandwidthd
20275 root          1  44    0 16720K  3512K bpf     1   1:27  0.00% bandwidthd
20102 root          1  44    0 16720K  3556K bpf     0   1:24  0.00% bandwidthd
19887 root          1  44    0 16720K  3776K bpf     2   1:18  0.00% bandwidthd
 6302 root          1  51    0   108M 38288K accept  2   0:17  0.00% php
63210 proxy         1  44    0 48016K 32612K kqread  1   0:10  0.00% squid
21589 root          1  44    0 25872K  5924K kqread  2   0:08  0.00% lighttpd
 5781 root          1  64   20  5964K  1600K select  1   0:06  0.00% apinger
  728 root          2  44    0   395M 88984K nanslp  3   0:05  0.00% snort
21996 root          1  48    0   110M 34564K accept  3   0:03  0.00% php
 6654 nobody        1  44    0 10144K  3236K select  1   0:03  0.00% dnsmasq
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                          n2qcn
                          last edited by

                          IP stats after a week.

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                            n2qcn
                            last edited by


                            In March Shuttle will start shipping DS61 v1.1 with two more USB 2.0 ports on the front.

                            Also a new BIOS is available that during S3 sleep mode, the power consumption is dropped from 10W(old
                            DS61) to 5W(new DS61-v1.1) to fulfill the new EU requirement.

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                              jimmy1987
                              last edited by

                              I did read about that yes :) Does it run on the same hardware aside from that?
                              I tried running the 2.1 beta but I think it's far too buggy to run in production as I would get an IP but had no internet, and the 2.0.2 version doesn't work at all because pfsense need at least 1 working interface.

                              I'm now running an esx version on it as it supported all hardware automatically ( which is a miracle on itself seeing vmware does not support much consumer hardware :) )

                              And I'm now running pfsense inside esx for about 3 days without any problems.

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                                n2qcn
                                last edited by

                                Does it run on the same hardware aside from that?

                                The bios file is exactly the same:

                                sum  DS61D000-1.203/DOS/DS61D000.203 DS61D000.203/DOS/DS61D000.203
                                63712 4096 DS61D000-1.203/DOS/DS61D000.203
                                63712 4096 DS61D000.203/DOS/DS61D000.203

                                so my guess is the MB is exactly the same.

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                                  n2qcn
                                  last edited by

                                  a P2P load next to a cpu graph on a ds61 running 2.0.2 non-nano amd64


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                                    n2qcn
                                    last edited by

                                    another P2P test, this time showing lots of connections


                                    and continue to have a good experience with two RealTek 8111E

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                                      n2qcn
                                      last edited by

                                      Looks like Provantage has some ds61 v1.1 in-stock.

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                                        ealvar
                                        last edited by

                                        Ewiiz/Superbiiz has them in stock.

                                        Price: $170.99
                                        $8.99 Shipping

                                        $10 off with coupon code 'HOLEN1'.

                                        https://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=SYS-DS61

                                        The v1.1 are $14 more.

                                        https://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=SYS-DS61V1

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                                          checkers
                                          last edited by

                                          So this is just a bare bones system? How much am I looking (ball park) once I buy components for home user? give price range from low end components to higher end?

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                                            9k6
                                            last edited by

                                            Just below $300.

                                            Besides the DS61 you need CPU, RAM, (mSATA-) SSD.

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