Shuttle ds61
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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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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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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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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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OMG!
I used the serial version…
I'll try the 'real' one and report.Holger
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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 transfersmight 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> -
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> -
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? -
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 -
IP stats after a week.
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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
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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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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/DS61D000.203so my guess is the MB is exactly the same.
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a P2P load next to a cpu graph on a ds61 running 2.0.2 non-nano amd64
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another P2P test, this time showing lots of connections
and continue to have a good experience with two RealTek 8111E -
Looks like Provantage has some ds61 v1.1 in-stock.
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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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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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Just below $300.
Besides the DS61 you need CPU, RAM, (mSATA-) SSD.
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Looks like Newegg has some ds61 v1.1 in-stock.