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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
                  last edited by

                  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
                      last edited by

                      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
                        last edited by

                        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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                        • stephenw10S
                          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
                            last edited by

                            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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