Installation on Intel D2500CC (atom with dual NIC board)

stuck

besides the first gentleman who posted his idle consumption @ ~20watts
has anyone else checked their power consumption at idle?
I thought I read somewhere that these atom 2500's were supposed to idle at <10 watts?

Paul47

My D2500CC idles at 15W using a "Kill-a-watt". I have it running the 64-bit 2.1Beta snapshot. I think the 32-bit beta also worked. Anything else was a problem for me, IIRC. I am using a Picopsu-120 with a 10A (large) power brick, which might account for some of that. A PicoPSU-80 would probably make more sense. I'm using a flash drive, not a hard drive.

tpf

I'm using pfS 2.1 x64 Snapshots full-install@hdd with two Intel D2500CCE board since eight months without any problems, except the serial-console-bug. Services are HAVP, Squid / Dansguardian and OpenVPN on a 50/2,5 cable. VLAN on the Intel NICs works, too.

Without cooling the Atom heats to 60 degree celsius. Power consumption with HDD and none -80+ PSU ~30W.

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pvoigt

@tpf:

I'm using pfS 2.1 x64 Snapshots full-install@hdd with two Intel D2500CCE board since eight months without any problems, except the serial-console-bug. Services are HAVP, Squid / Dansguardian and OpenVPN on a 50/2,5 cable. VLAN on the Intel NICs works, too.

Without cooling the Atom heats to 60 degree celsius. Power consumption with HDD and none -80+ PSU ~30W.

Nice to hear, that this nice board is handling VLANs correctly - despite some reported problems elsewhere. The Intel is using the same NIC as my board, namely the Intel 82574L and I can confirm not having any VLAN issues.

Your measured power consumption seems very realistic according to my experiences with an Atom D525 on a Jetway NF99FL-525. I've measured the power consumption with a power meter during several hours and found ~33 W with one CF, WiFi, one case fan and a standard ATX PSU.

Hoping, for a solution of the serial console bug in the near future as it is the same with my board (pfSense 2.0.1 NanoBSD VGA AMD64) :)

n1ko

I got one of these recently too. Running vlans and no troubles (2.1).

The traffic output seems to be quite low though, running iperf with single nic and vlans only gets me around ~380Mbps because the cpu gets capped by the interrupts.

maverick_slo

Hi guys!

I just got this MB and waiting for my job to end :)
Then install fresh pfSense on it.

Are there any video troubles with it or they all got fixed?

Regards,
M

maverick_slo

Installed and working fine :)

One thing worries me in dmesg:


kernel: RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery></clock_battery>

I replaced battery, unplugged, CMOS is remembered so batt works 100%.
Bug?

maverick_slo

Wow, I`m quite impressed, traffic between 2 onboard interfaces:

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stephenw10

Nearly 700Mbps, that I'd quite impressive for an Atom. Did you make any tweaks? Is that just firewalling?

Steve

maverick_slo

Just firewalling, default install, Intel NICs everywhere and powerD in adaptive mode.

kejianshi

I've lost track of what you are using for HDD, but…

I'd put it on a SATA HDD or good SSD and be done with it. They can both be had for cheap.
I find on ebay that people are dumping used SLC SSDs primarily because 120MB/s is just not fast enough for them or they want enormous SSDs. Since those 2009ish Intel and Samsung SLC SSDs are nearly indestructable, and you don't need massive SATA3 speed or enormous storage, I'd grab one of those.

I recently replaced my WD HDD in my home pfsense with a 64GB Samsung SSD and its..... Exactly the same as before.
Thats not very exciting, I know, but if it always stays same, and doesn't break I'll be happy.

Its a 64GB SSD and I have it set to use about 30GB for squid cache, so its "over-provisioned" for my use.

maverick_slo

Hey!

I use calssic :) HDD Seagate 500GB constallation series…
Had one laying around and collecting dust, so I plugged it in :)

kejianshi

Nothing wrong with that…

tjabas

im also thinking of ordering a minix, i found this one: http://www.geekbuying.com/item/MINIX-MINI-HD-PC-Barebone-System-Intel-D2550-CPU-HDMI-VGA-No-memory-No-hard-disk-Us-Plug-317041.html

would this work fine?

or can i get a better and cheaper anywhere else?

im going to install strong vpn, openvpn, do you Think that i can get a good speed out of this box when using openvpn on a 100mb line?
that is very important for me that i get a good speed through the openvpn Connection, or do i need a better cpu?

and where can i buy a cheap harddrive/memorycard and ram memory for this minix?

thank you

tjabas

…and is it possible to add a wireless card in the minix? if so, witch one is the best?

stephenw10

You will probably see ~60Mbps openvpn throughput, less if you're doing other stuff with it.

Atheros wifi cards are best supported but even then older cards are more likely to work. There is no support for 802.11n so you won't see more than 54Mbps. Many people would recommend an external access point.

Steve

tjabas

ok, thank you for your answer, i guess that i have to make an order then:)
but i guess if i get a minix or other with a faster cpu, i will get even faster troughput whn using openvpn?
its too bad that pfsense cant handle pptp Connection, the Connection speed would be better than with openvpn.

where can i buy this minix as cheap as possible?

stephenw10

Yes the throughput is limited by the CPU encrypt/decrypt speed.

pfSense can do PPTP but you shouldn't use it due to it's weak encryption:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PPTP_VPN

Steve

tjabas

thanks again for the Quick answer, i know that pptp is possible in pfsense but i dont Think that its possible to use a vpn service like strong vpn, pure vpn or anyting else that provides pptp encryption, but correct me if im wrong, and please tell me how to set it up to get it to work, i have Always used tomato firmware and the pptp setup in that tomato router is very easy, just username, password, and the pptp gateway is all that i need to get it to work, not that simple in pf sense if its possible at all.

rjcrowder

@tjabas:

im also thinking of ordering a minix, i found this one: http://www.geekbuying.com/item/MINIX-MINI-HD-PC-Barebone-System-Intel-D2550-CPU-HDMI-VGA-No-memory-No-hard-disk-Us-Plug-317041.html

would this work fine?

This looks to be the same box as this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856205007. There's a thread on this board where someone set one up with good luck… Once you include shipping cost, it might be cheaper from newegg.