Shuttle ds61

9k6 · May 4, 2013, 7:11 PM

[…] the top black box which has a company logo of ZON […]

http://www.zonaudio.com ;)

CGTroll · May 9, 2013, 1:30 PM

I bought the Shuttle ds61 V1.1 which is slightly different from yours, but did you have any installation problems? I can't get passed VLAN and WAN setup after install. It says it does not detect any devices, so I'm assuming pfSense does not see the two onboard NICs. Had any problems with that?

Thanks

n2qcn · May 9, 2013, 5:01 PM

While its easy to copy seedrs's driver to a 2.0.x install, (I'm using the 64bit version now) its easier to install the newer 2.1 snapshot. ie: if seeder's notes don't make sense, pls use the 2.1 install. (also tested and independently verified working)

n2qcn · May 19, 2013, 1:21 AM

could you throw some "low voltage" light

The left top two are 20 port CAN bus star hubs for light switch touch pads, (the high voltage wall has SCRs dimmers on this CAN bus) the gray thing to its left is a linux box for CAN timed events and the two green cards below them are 8 input ports (doorbells, door position sensors, motion sensors) and 8 outputs (open garage door, relays for high current loads, recorded announcement triggers) all on the CAN bus.

As pointed out by 9k6 the Zon is an audio router with remote inputs, paging and recorded announcements, and below that is a vlan/lagg switch and then the ds61. The user interface (with hard speaker zone switch) looks like:

n2qcn · May 27, 2013, 8:09 PM

Are those mouse traps

yea, the buggers chomp on the PoE cables. The AC wires would be more memorable, well, perhaps not. :-)

tracinet · Aug 22, 2013, 3:00 PM

If I copied the nanobsd (4g) image to a 4GB SD card and stuck it in the front SD slot, would the system boot up and work fine that way without a hard drive installed? Or is the issue that pfsense does not recognize the SD slot properly?

wallabybob · Aug 29, 2013, 11:22 AM

@tracinet:

If I copied the nanobsd (4g) image to a 4GB SD card and stuck it in the front SD slot, would the system boot up and work fine that way without a hard drive installed?

Does the BIOS support booting from the SD slot?

n2qcn · Sep 6, 2013, 5:56 PM

Does the BIOS support booting from the SD slot?

yup, it shows up like a USB port, so load USB type images on the SD card.

tguldener · Sep 14, 2013, 9:36 PM

The System is not bad - the only thing is the fan. Shuttle DS47 is fanless, but the new Realtek RT 8111G are not supported from FreeBSD and also not from PFSense :'( - also not supported in FreeBSD 10-ALPHA :-\

http://www.shuttle.eu/products/slim/ds47/overview/

xtra-james1 · Sep 15, 2013, 6:01 AM

why is the fan a problem?

kejianshi · Sep 15, 2013, 6:09 AM

Enjoy that bleeding edge. Don't worry. It will ripen. Put it in a bag. Seal it and put it next to a window where it can get plenty of sun. Take it out in about a year or two. It should be ready by then.

tguldener · Sep 15, 2013, 4:08 PM

@kushtrim:

why is the fan a problem?

I'd like fanless solutions. I like systems without any active components.

n2qcn · Sep 20, 2013, 5:10 PM

I'd like fanless solutions. I like systems without any active components.

fanless systems top out at 17watts, if you can accept a huge case some will go up to 45watts. The the ds61 offers a tiny case capable of accepting a 65watt cpu! way, faster.

stephenw10 · Sep 20, 2013, 6:42 PM

The Akasa Euler can take a 35W CPU. That includes the 't' variants on many modern and fast cpus. Its not cheap though and more importantly the motherboard it's designed to house seems no longer available. ::)

Steve

musiccow · Nov 11, 2013, 9:12 AM

@n2qcn:

I'd like fanless solutions. I like systems without any active components.

fanless systems top out at 17watts, if you can accept a huge case some will go up to 45watts. The the ds61 offers a tiny case capable of accepting a 65watt cpu! way, faster.

Hi n2qcn, I bought a DS61 and now choosing CPU for the box. It says the box has the capability of supporting 65watt CPU, but I notice you are using a 69Watt Xeon. Does the 4watt matters? or can it run stably?

n2qcn · Nov 11, 2013, 2:19 PM

I'm using a 55w TDP i3-3220. I also graphed the headroom and found it never got very loud at normal room temperature, so its a good bet it can take a 65w load in a very hot room. Heck, its designed for digital signage with 50c caps! but I don't think I'd use a 69w cpu.

musiccow · Nov 13, 2013, 12:32 PM

I mistook that from your dmesg output. Thank you for your reply. I also selected an i3-3220.

n2qcn · Jan 4, 2014, 4:20 AM

Permit a bump to show off my new internet pipe. oh, yea, of course passing through a DS61 via pfsense :-)

TangoWhiskey · May 12, 2014, 9:59 PM

Looks like a nice upgrade n2qcn!

Question for you. Would you go with the same setup you are running if you built this again today?

I work for a company with 5 locations and have really enjoyed what pfsense has provided me thus far. So I'm thinking of replacing the crapola routers we currently have with a pfsense box. I don't want to spend an arm and leg, but I also want something with power, and the ability to run snort, squid, etc. So this looks like an excellent solution.

Thanks for any further input. I'm assuming the newest version has no issues with this hardware.

TIA :D

This is the device I'm looking at on NewEgg.
http://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-56-101-134

theoski · May 18, 2014, 3:00 PM

Anyone had problems with detecting ssd? I am using 64GB SanDisk SSD. Spent entire morning try to get it right.