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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      You have to run the fetch command at the CLI to see the output. Sorry I should have said that.

      So where is the switch?

      Steve

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        smileybri
        last edited by

        My Computer connected directly to the LAN side of the pfSense box. (FYI I typically try these tests three times to make sure they are consistent. I post if they are in the same range.

        My computer has Gigabit Ethernet so I think that either the Realtek NIC or pfSense has trouble negotiating with Gigabit ports.

        Steve, how can I get to the Command LIne Interface (CLI)? The live terminal isn't responding to keyboard input - only to the keyboard or mouse being connected or disconnected as in…

        usm0: <logitech 0="" 2="" usb-ps="" trackball,="" class="" blah="" on="" usbus0<br="">usm0: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0

        Those are the last two lines with the lines above that related to the USB Keyboard. How do I enter the command?</logitech>

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          smileybri
          last edited by

          That theory is out. Again connected to the 10/100

          (the cables are 7 ft. to answer where is the switch) The switch is mounted to the wall behind the desk.

          Oh, and the WAN port on my old Lynksys seems defunct so I can't get a test on that.

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            smileybri
            last edited by

            fetch -o /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test.zip
            Results: 100% of 11MB 153 kBps

            I found a couple of other network cards. Linksys LNE100TX v5.1 & Netwok Everywhere NC100 v2.1 if you think they would do the trick.

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              smileybri
              last edited by

              Okay, I found another WRT54GL with dd-wrt and I connected it.

              The first test was 25+ down and 5+ up and the above was likely due to Comcast caching. I switched to the Naples, FL server and got:

              but it still could be because of cached data. Much better results though.

              I'm leaving the Linksys device for now until I can get some more suggestions. Now that I can browse leisurely from my laptop I will look through some posts here and see what kind of hardware people are getting good results with and then see if I have any of that laying around here.

              Thank you, Steve. You have been an huge help.

              -Brian

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                Hmm, no menu on the console eh? Which install type are you running? If you selected embedded kernel or you're using a NanoBSD image then the console is switched to the serial port, which is more common on an embedded appliance.
                However you can still get to the console menu by connecting via SSH. Once at the menu slect option 8 for the command line.

                When I said where is the switch I meant where in the network is it. Since you say your client machine is connected directly to the pfSense LAN port I assume the switch is between the WAN port and the cable modem? Any reason you have switch there at all?

                Steve

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                  smileybri
                  last edited by

                  Sorry Steve!

                  I was testing many different connections. Typically I have this setup…

                  Modem > Router/Firewall > Gigabit Switch > My Desktop PC
                                                                          > Gigabit Switch on the other side of the house > Entertainment Center PC
                                                                                                                                          > TV
                                                                                                                                          > DirecTV HD DVR
                                                                                                                                          > Two printers
                                                    > 10/100 Switch
                                                    > Linux server
                                                    > 4 PC workbench

                  I was doing tests of pfSense with my PC attached to:
                  The LAN port of the pfSense machine directly
                  The 10/100 switch in between the LAN port of pfSense and my PC
                  The Gigabit switch n between the LAN port of pfSense and my PC

                  I actually confirmed that the Gigabit ports were getting 2 to 3 Mbbs down while the 10/100 was getting about 10 Mbps down. That is the LAN port of the pfSense machine attached to the various ports. Gigabit is out but probably due to the age of the NICs I am assuming.

                  All in all the Linksys router wins but I am eager to dive back in and test other hardware. I have a few computers that are newer that might be up to the challenge, but I might wait until I can get my hands on better NIC cards.

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                    cmb
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                    What does dmesg show? After boot, go to Diag>Command and run dmesg. Paste the output here.

                    I suspect you have a NIC sharing an IRQ with some other component of the system, sometimes that'll cause significant performance degradation.

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                    • stephenw10S
                      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                      last edited by

                      @smileybri:

                      fetch -o /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test.zip
                      Results: 100% of 11MB 153 kBps

                      Sorry I totally overlooked this result above. How was that achieved? It seems very slow. Implies the slow part of the connection is the WAN interface. I would try swapping WAN and LAN and re-running that test.

                      Steve

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                        smileybri
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                        Steve, thanks. I rebooted and selected the option on the box itself to get the console and ran command right from the console. I will swap interfaces later and give the result again, but swapping the WAN and LAN was one of the very first things I did to no effect so I don't have much hope in the result being much different.

                        I have the machine disconnected from the network now. The family wants the Internet up and working for a while without interruption. Here is the report from only a machine connected to the LAN side.

                        $ dmesg
                        Copyright © 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project.
                        Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
                        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
                        FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
                        FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #0: Fri Apr 12 10:54:59 EDT 2013
                            root@snapshots-8_1-amd64.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8 amd64
                        Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
                        CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.02-MHz K8-class CPU)
                          Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf41  Family = f  Model = 4  Stepping = 1
                          Features=0xbfebfbff <fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe>Features2=0x641d <sse3,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,cnxt-id,cx16,xtpr>AMD Features=0x20100800 <syscall,nx,lm>TSC: P-state invariant
                        real memory  = 536870912 (512 MB)
                        avail memory = 484552704 (462 MB)
                        ACPI APIC Table: <dell  4700 ="">FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
                        FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 1 core(s) x 2 HTT threads
                        cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
                        cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID:  1
                        ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8
                        ioapic0 <version 2.0="">irqs 0-23 on motherboard
                        lapic0: Forcing LINT1 to edge trigger
                        wlan: mac acl policy registered
                        ipw_monitor: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/.
                        ipw_monitor: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
                        module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_monitor_fw, 0xffffffff804732e0, 0) error 1
                        wpi: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/.
                        wpi: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
                        module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (wpi_fw, 0xffffffff80656da0, 0) error 1
                        ipw_bss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/.
                        ipw_bss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
                        module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_bss_fw, 0xffffffff804731a0, 0) error 1
                        ipw_ibss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/.
                        ipw_ibss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
                        module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_ibss_fw, 0xffffffff80473240, 0) error 1
                        kbd1 at kbdmux0
                        cryptosoft0: <software crypto="">on motherboard
                        padlock0: No ACE support.
                        acpi0: <dell 4700 ="">on motherboard
                        acpi0: [ITHREAD]
                        acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
                        acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
                        acpi0: reservation of 100000, f00000 (3) failed
                        acpi0: reservation of 1000000, 1e688c00 (3) failed
                        Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
                        acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
                        cpu0: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
                        cpu1: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
                        acpi_hpet0: <high precision="" event="" timer="">iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0
                        Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900
                        acpi_button0: <power button="">on acpi0
                        acpi_button0: enable wake failed
                        pcib0: <acpi host-pci="" bridge="">port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
                        pci0: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib0
                        pcib1: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 16 at device 1.0 on pci0
                        pci1: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib1
                        vgapci0: <vga-compatible display="">port 0xe898-0xe89f mem 0xdff00000-0xdff7ffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xdfec0000-0xdfefffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
                        agp0: <intel 82915g="" (915g="" gmch)="" svga="" controller="">on vgapci0
                        agp0: detected 7932k stolen memory
                        agp0: aperture size is 256M
                        vgapci1: <vga-compatible display="">mem 0xdff80000-0xdfffffff at device 2.1 on pci0
                        pcib2: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0
                        pci2: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib2
                        uhci0: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-a="">port 0xff80-0xff9f irq 21 at device 29.0 on pci0
                        uhci0: [ITHREAD]
                        usbus0: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-a="">on uhci0
                        uhci1: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">port 0xff60-0xff7f irq 22 at device 29.1 on pci0
                        uhci1: [ITHREAD]
                        usbus1: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">on uhci1
                        uhci2: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-c="">port 0xff40-0xff5f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0
                        uhci2: [ITHREAD]
                        usbus2: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-c="">on uhci2
                        uhci3: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-d="">port 0xff20-0xff3f irq 23 at device 29.3 on pci0
                        uhci3: [ITHREAD]
                        usbus3: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-d="">on uhci3
                        ehci0: <intel 82801fb="" (ich6)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xffa80800-0xffa80bff irq 21 at device 29.7 on pci0
                        ehci0: [ITHREAD]
                        usbus4: EHCI version 1.0
                        usbus4: <intel 82801fb="" (ich6)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci0
                        pcib3: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 30.0 on pci0
                        pci3: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib3
                        rl0: <realtek 10="" 8129="" 100basetx="">port 0xdc80-0xdcff mem 0xdfbfef80-0xdfbfefff irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci3
                        miibus0: <mii bus="">on rl0
                        rlphy0: <realtek internal="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus0
                        rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
                        rl0: [ITHREAD]
                        fxp0: <intel 82562ez="" (ich6)="">port 0xdc40-0xdc7f mem 0xdfbff000-0xdfbfffff irq 20 at device 8.0 on pci3
                        miibus1: <mii bus="">on fxp0
                        inphy0: <i82562et 10="" 100="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus1
                        inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
                        fxp0: [ITHREAD]
                        pci0: <multimedia, audio="">at device 30.2 (no driver attached)
                        isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">at device 31.0 on pci0
                        isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0
                        atapci0: <intel ich6="" udma100="" controller="">port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf irq 16 at device 31.1 on pci0
                        ata0: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci0
                        ata0: [ITHREAD]
                        ata1: <ata 1="" channel="">on atapci0
                        ata1: [ITHREAD]
                        atapci1: <intel ich6="" sata150="" controller="">port 0xfe00-0xfe07,0xfe10-0xfe13,0xfe20-0xfe27,0xfe30-0xfe33,0xfea0-0xfeaf irq 20 at device 31.2 on pci0
                        atapci1: [ITHREAD]
                        ata2: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci1
                        ata2: [ITHREAD]
                        ata3: <ata 1="" channel="">on atapci1
                        ata3: [ITHREAD]
                        pci0: <serial bus,="" smbus="">at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
                        atrtc0: <at realtime="" clock="">port 0x70-0x7f irq 8 on acpi0
                        ppc0: <parallel port="">port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 on acpi0
                        ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
                        ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
                        ppc0: [ITHREAD]
                        ppbus0: <parallel port="" bus="">on ppc0
                        plip0: <plip network="" interface="">on ppbus0
                        plip0: [ITHREAD]
                        lpt0: <printer>on ppbus0
                        lpt0: [ITHREAD]
                        lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
                        ppi0: <parallel i="" o="">on ppbus0
                        uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
                        uart0: [FILTER]
                        orm0: <isa option="" roms="">at iomem 0xc0000-0xca7ff,0xca800-0xcbfff on isa0
                        sc0: <system console="">at flags 0x100 on isa0
                        sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
                        vga0: <generic isa="" vga="">at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
                        atkbdc0: <keyboard controller="" (i8042)="">at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
                        atkbd0: <at keyboard="">irq 1 on atkbdc0
                        kbd0 at atkbd0
                        atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
                        atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
                        p4tcc0: <cpu frequency="" thermal="" control="">on cpu0
                        p4tcc1: <cpu frequency="" thermal="" control="">on cpu1
                        Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
                        IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
                        usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
                        usbus1: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
                        usbus2: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
                        usbus3: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
                        usbus4: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
                        acd0: CDROM <lite-on cd-rom="" ltn-489s="" 8ds2="">at ata0-master UDMA33
                        ad4: 38146MB <hitachi hds728040pla320="" pf1oa63a="">at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA
                        ugen0.1: <intel>at usbus0
                        uhub0: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus0
                        ugen1.1: <intel>at usbus1
                        uhub1: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus1
                        ugen2.1: <intel>at usbus2
                        uhub2: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus2
                        ugen3.1: <intel>at usbus3
                        uhub3: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus3
                        ugen4.1: <intel>at usbus4
                        uhub4: <intel 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus4
                        lapic1: Forcing LINT1 to edge trigger
                        SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
                        Root mount waiting for: usbus4 usbus3 usbus2 usbus1 usbus0
                        uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                        uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                        uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                        uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                        Root mount waiting for: usbus4
                        Root mount waiting for: usbus4
                        uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
                        Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
                        ugen0.2: <vendor 0x0557="">at usbus0
                        uhub5: <vendor 2="" 9="" 0x0557="" product="" 0x7000,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.10="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus0
                        uhub5: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
                        ugen0.3: <dell>at usbus0
                        ukbd0: <dell 0="" 3="" dell="" usb="" keyboard,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.10="" 3.01,="" addr="">on usbus0
                        kbd2 at ukbd0
                        ugen0.4: <logitech>at usbus0
                        ums0: <logitech 0="" 2="" 4="" usb-ps="" trackball,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 2.00,="" addr="">on usbus0
                        ums0: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0
                        pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled
                        fxp0: link state changed to UP
                        fxp0: link state changed to DOWN
                        fxp0: link state changed to UP
                        ugen0.4: <logitech>at usbus0 (disconnected)
                        ums0: at uhub5, port 4, addr 4 (disconnected)</logitech></logitech></logitech></dell></dell></vendor></vendor></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></hitachi></lite-on></cpu></cpu></at></keyboard></generic></system></isa></parallel></printer></plip></parallel></parallel></at></serial></ata></ata></intel></ata></ata></intel></isa></pci-isa></multimedia,></i82562et></mii></intel></realtek></mii></realtek></acpi></acpi></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></acpi></acpi></vga-compatible></intel></vga-compatible></acpi></acpi></acpi></acpi></power></high></acpi></acpi></dell></software></version></dell ></syscall,nx,lm></sse3,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,cnxt-id,cx16,xtpr></fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe>

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                          cmb
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                          SATA controller and the NIC are sharing an IRQ. That could be why. At times it is, though it's common and usually causes no problems, it'd be my strongest suspicion in this case. Mucking with BIOS settings may change that around (things like PNP OS setting). Disabling unused hardware in the BIOS may also do it.

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                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                            @smileybri:

                            swapping the WAN and LAN was one of the very first things I did to no effect so I don't have much hope in the result being much different.

                            Yes but this test only uses the WAN interface so if, for example, your Realtek NIC was causing a problem and you swapped that to the LAN that problem should be removed.

                            Something I notice from your dmesg is that you have a Hyperthreading P4. Hyperthreading in these older CPUs has been shown to little advantage and in some cases even reduce performance. This couldn't possibly bring down the throughput to <5Mbps but it's worth noting.

                            Steve

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                              smileybri
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                              Okay, I disabled HT and Audio, Parallel Port & Serial Port. Then ran again…

                              $ dmesg
                              Copyright © 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project.
                              Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
                              The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
                              FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
                              FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #0: Fri Apr 12 10:54:59 EDT 2013
                                  root@snapshots-8_1-amd64.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8 amd64
                              Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
                              CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.02-MHz K8-class CPU)
                                Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf41  Family = f  Model = 4  Stepping = 1
                                Features=0xbfebfbff <fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe>Features2=0x641d <sse3,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,cnxt-id,cx16,xtpr>AMD Features=0x20100800 <syscall,nx,lm>TSC: P-state invariant
                              real memory  = 536870912 (512 MB)
                              avail memory = 484544512 (462 MB)
                              ACPI APIC Table: <dell  4700 ="">WARNING: Non-uniform processors.
                              WARNING: Using suboptimal topology.
                              ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 8
                              ioapic0 <version 2.0="">irqs 0-23 on motherboard
                              lapic0: Forcing LINT1 to edge trigger
                              wlan: mac acl policy registered
                              ipw_monitor: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/.
                              ipw_monitor: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
                              module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_monitor_fw, 0xffffffff804732e0, 0) error 1
                              wpi: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/.
                              wpi: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
                              module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (wpi_fw, 0xffffffff80656da0, 0) error 1
                              ipw_bss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/.
                              ipw_bss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
                              module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_bss_fw, 0xffffffff804731a0, 0) error 1
                              ipw_ibss: You need to read the LICENSE file in /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/.
                              ipw_ibss: If you agree with the license, set legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
                              module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (ipw_ibss_fw, 0xffffffff80473240, 0) error 1
                              kbd1 at kbdmux0
                              cryptosoft0: <software crypto="">on motherboard
                              padlock0: No ACE support.
                              acpi0: <dell 4700 ="">on motherboard
                              acpi0: [ITHREAD]
                              acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
                              acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
                              acpi0: reservation of 100000, f00000 (3) failed
                              acpi0: reservation of 1000000, 1e688c00 (3) failed
                              Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
                              acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
                              cpu0: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
                              acpi_hpet0: <high precision="" event="" timer="">iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0
                              Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 900
                              acpi_button0: <power button="">on acpi0
                              acpi_button0: enable wake failed
                              pcib0: <acpi host-pci="" bridge="">port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
                              pci0: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib0
                              pcib1: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 16 at device 1.0 on pci0
                              pci1: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib1
                              vgapci0: <vga-compatible display="">port 0xecd8-0xecdf mem 0xdff00000-0xdff7ffff,0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xdfec0000-0xdfefffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
                              agp0: <intel 82915g="" (915g="" gmch)="" svga="" controller="">on vgapci0
                              agp0: detected 7932k stolen memory
                              agp0: aperture size is 256M
                              vgapci1: <vga-compatible display="">mem 0xdff80000-0xdfffffff at device 2.1 on pci0
                              pcib2: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0
                              pci2: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib2
                              uhci0: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-a="">port 0xff80-0xff9f irq 21 at device 29.0 on pci0
                              uhci0: [ITHREAD]
                              usbus0: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-a="">on uhci0
                              uhci1: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">port 0xff60-0xff7f irq 22 at device 29.1 on pci0
                              uhci1: [ITHREAD]
                              usbus1: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-b="">on uhci1
                              uhci2: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-c="">port 0xff40-0xff5f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0
                              uhci2: [ITHREAD]
                              usbus2: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-c="">on uhci2
                              uhci3: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-d="">port 0xff20-0xff3f irq 23 at device 29.3 on pci0
                              uhci3: [ITHREAD]
                              usbus3: <intel 82801fb="" fr="" fw="" frw="" (ich6)="" usb="" controller="" usb-d="">on uhci3
                              ehci0: <intel 82801fb="" (ich6)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xffa80800-0xffa80bff irq 21 at device 29.7 on pci0
                              ehci0: [ITHREAD]
                              usbus4: EHCI version 1.0
                              usbus4: <intel 82801fb="" (ich6)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci0
                              pcib3: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 30.0 on pci0
                              pci3: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib3
                              rl0: <realtek 10="" 8129="" 100basetx="">port 0xdc80-0xdcff mem 0xdfbfef80-0xdfbfefff irq 17 at device 1.0 on pci3
                              miibus0: <mii bus="">on rl0
                              rlphy0: <realtek internal="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus0
                              rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
                              rl0: [ITHREAD]
                              fxp0: <intel 82562ez="" (ich6)="">port 0xdc40-0xdc7f mem 0xdfbff000-0xdfbfffff irq 20 at device 8.0 on pci3
                              miibus1: <mii bus="">on fxp0
                              inphy0: <i82562et 10="" 100="" media="" interface="">PHY 1 on miibus1
                              inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
                              fxp0: [ITHREAD]
                              isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">at device 31.0 on pci0
                              isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0
                              atapci0: <intel ich6="" udma100="" controller="">port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf irq 16 at device 31.1 on pci0
                              ata0: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci0
                              ata0: [ITHREAD]
                              ata1: <ata 1="" channel="">on atapci0
                              ata1: [ITHREAD]
                              atapci1: <intel ich6="" sata150="" controller="">port 0xfe00-0xfe07,0xfe10-0xfe13,0xfe20-0xfe27,0xfe30-0xfe33,0xfea0-0xfeaf irq 20 at device 31.2 on pci0
                              atapci1: [ITHREAD]
                              ata2: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci1
                              ata2: [ITHREAD]
                              ata3: <ata 1="" channel="">on atapci1
                              ata3: [ITHREAD]
                              pci0: <serial bus,="" smbus="">at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
                              atrtc0: <at realtime="" clock="">port 0x70-0x7f irq 8 on acpi0
                              orm0: <isa option="" roms="">at iomem 0xc0000-0xca7ff,0xca800-0xcbfff on isa0
                              sc0: <system console="">at flags 0x100 on isa0
                              sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
                              vga0: <generic isa="" vga="">at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
                              atkbdc0: <keyboard controller="" (i8042)="">at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
                              atkbd0: <at keyboard="">irq 1 on atkbdc0
                              kbd0 at atkbd0
                              atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
                              atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
                              ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
                              p4tcc0: <cpu frequency="" thermal="" control="">on cpu0
                              Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2793017094 Hz quality 800
                              Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
                              IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
                              usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
                              usbus1: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
                              usbus2: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
                              usbus3: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
                              usbus4: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
                              acd0: CDROM <lite-on cd-rom="" ltn-489s="" 8ds2="">at ata0-master UDMA33
                              ad4: 38146MB <hitachi hds728040pla320="" pf1oa63a="">at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA
                              ugen0.1: <intel>at usbus0
                              uhub0: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus0
                              ugen1.1: <intel>at usbus1
                              uhub1: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus1
                              ugen2.1: <intel>at usbus2
                              uhub2: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus2
                              ugen3.1: <intel>at usbus3
                              uhub3: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus3
                              ugen4.1: <intel>at usbus4
                              uhub4: <intel 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus4
                              Root mount waiting for: usbus4 usbus3 usbus2 usbus1 usbus0
                              uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                              uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                              uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                              uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
                              Root mount waiting for: usbus4
                              Root mount waiting for: usbus4
                              Root mount waiting for: usbus4
                              uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
                              Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a
                              ugen0.2: <vendor 0x0557="">at usbus0
                              uhub5: <vendor 2="" 9="" 0x0557="" product="" 0x7000,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.10="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usbus0
                              uhub5: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
                              ugen0.3: <dell>at usbus0
                              ukbd0: <dell 0="" 3="" dell="" usb="" keyboard,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.10="" 3.01,="" addr="">on usbus0
                              kbd2 at ukbd0
                              ugen0.4: <logitech>at usbus0
                              ums0: <logitech 0="" 2="" 4="" usb-ps="" trackball,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 2.00,="" addr="">on usbus0
                              ums0: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0
                              pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled
                              ugen0.4: <logitech>at usbus0 (disconnected)
                              ums0: at uhub5, port 4, addr 4 (disconnected)
                              fxp0: link state changed to DOWN
                              fxp0: link state changed to UP
                              fxp0: link state changed to DOWN
                              fxp0: link state changed to UP</logitech></logitech></logitech></dell></dell></vendor></vendor></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></hitachi></lite-on></cpu></at></keyboard></generic></system></isa></at></serial></ata></ata></intel></ata></ata></intel></isa></pci-isa></i82562et></mii></intel></realtek></mii></realtek></acpi></acpi></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></intel></acpi></acpi></vga-compatible></intel></vga-compatible></acpi></acpi></acpi></acpi></power></high></acpi></dell></software></version></dell ></syscall,nx,lm></sse3,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,cnxt-id,cx16,xtpr></fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe>

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                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                Unfortunately your SATA controller and on board Intel NIC are both still on IRQ 20. Hard to know how to get around that. You may have options to move one or other in the BIOS. You could possibly boot from CD, which is PATA connected, and disable SATA. That would prove the IRQ theory at least but seems like a lot of trouble to go to.

                                I'd have to first suspect that, realatively ancient, Realtek NIC.

                                Try my test if you can. You can setup pfSense as a client behind your soho router to avoid disruption. Just set only one NIC and use fxp0 for it. With only one NIC pfSense will allow you to connect via that interface (which will still be called WAN).

                                Steve

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