New Alix board for 2013
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Running iperf with GruensFroeschli's commands:
server PC1: iperf -s -i 10
client PC1: iperf -i 10 -t 99999 -P 50 -c 10.0.42.2[ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 533 MBytes 448 Mbits/sec [ 4] 10.0-20.0 sec 557 MBytes 467 Mbits/sec [ 4] 20.0-30.0 sec 518 MBytes 435 Mbits/sec [ 4] 30.0-40.0 sec 525 MBytes 441 Mbits/sec [ 4] 40.0-50.0 sec 525 MBytes 440 Mbits/sec [ 4] 50.0-60.0 sec 525 MBytes 440 Mbits/sec [ 4] 60.0-70.0 sec 530 MBytes 445 Mbits/sec [ 4] 70.0-80.0 sec 527 MBytes 442 Mbits/sec [ 4] 80.0-90.0 sec 584 MBytes 490 Mbits/sec ...top showing this while iperf is running (client is on re0):
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 11 root -68 - 0K 304K RUN 0 3:26 66.99% [intr{irq256: re0}] 11 root -68 - 0K 304K CPU0 0 1:46 31.98% [intr{irq258: re2}]no DMA errors/warnings at all.
My APU.1C only shows 3 Gb/s
ad4: 15258MB <supersspeed s328="" 16gb="" v4629=""> at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s</supersspeed>This is what I'm seeing on mine:
$ dmesg | grep SATA atapci0: <ati 800="" ixp700="" sata300="" controller="">port 0x4020-0x4027,0x4040-0x4043,0x4028-0x402f,0x4044-0x4047,0x4000-0x400f mem 0xfeb04000-0xfeb043ff at device 17.0 on pci0 ad4: 114473MB <kingston sms200s3120g="" 507abbf0="">at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 6Gb/s</kingston></ati>Here's the confusing part:
SATA300 is 300 MB/s (3Gbps)
UDMA100 is 100 MB/s
but then it states SATA 6Gbps at the end…difference between AHCI and legacy IDE should give you around 15% performance boost not much more so not sure what is wrong here.
Is there a way to benchmark drives under pfSense?
Thanks.
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ZFS is completely off-topic, plus not used at all… someone perhaps might mute the stupid noise during boot.
I've actually considered making it more, rather than less present in pfSense.
But go ahead, keep on keepin' on about things.
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Is there a way to benchmark drives under pfSense?
Well if nothing else you could just dd to null to get an idea of sequential transfer speed.
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@gonzopancho:
ZFS is completely off-topic, plus not used at all… someone perhaps might mute the stupid noise during boot.
I've actually considered making it more, rather than less present in pfSense.
But go ahead, keep on keepin' on about things.
Merely pointing out there's a noisy, scary, confusing, misleading warning making people do completely unnecessary "tweaks" .
As for making it more present - not interested in "cool factor" stuff. This is a firewall/router and the thing eats RAM for lunch. Geez. ::)
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Not that I would need blazing speeds on a pfSense router, but today I tested SSD throughput on the APU for the above mentioned
ad4: 15258MB <supersspeed s328="" 16gb="" v4629=""> at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s</supersspeed>with
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/delme bs=12M count=100; rm /tmp/delmeand I got:
100+0 records in 100+0 records out 1258291200 bytes transferred in 47.450329 secs (26518071 bytes/sec)which is really bad.
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What SSD is that?
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That is the one sold by PC Engines
http://www.pcengines.ch/msata16a.htm
I read a review of the APU and this SSD and the guy at ipfire,org got the same bad results. He also states, that it is a cheap SSD and would buy another. http://planet.ipfire.org/post/pc-engines-apu1c-a-review
Greets, Jud3x
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Yeah that's just down the the SSD itself rather than the board then, and it's pretty much what I'd expect for an SSD in that price range.
Read speed is far better than write speed though, and TBH I'm not sure what you'd want to be constantly writing at high speed to a small SSD like this for anyway, not least because of the limited write cycles of NAND.
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Anyone else having issues bridging the LAN interfaces? I get intermittent connectivity when I try and I can see the physical connection dropping. It should be noted that as soon as I remove the bridge I no longer get connection drops.
LAN: bridge0
MGMT: re1
WIFI: ath0
WIRED: re2BRIDGE0 Members: WIFI, WIRED
System Log:
Mar 30 19:13:03 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Mar 30 19:13:05 php: rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for WIRED(opt3) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP ( ) Mar 30 19:13:05 check_reload_status: rc.newwanip starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:08 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: Informational is starting re2. Mar 30 19:13:08 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: on (IP address: ) (interface: opt3) (real interface: re2). Mar 30 19:13:08 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: Failed to update opt3 IP, restarting... Mar 30 19:13:08 check_reload_status: Configuring interface opt3 Mar 30 19:13:11 php: rc.interfaces_wan_configure: The command '/sbin/ifconfig 're2' inet delete' returned exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address' Mar 30 19:13:11 check_reload_status: Linkup starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:11 kernel: re2: link state changed to DOWN Mar 30 19:13:13 check_reload_status: Linkup starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:13 kernel: re2: link state changed to UP Mar 30 19:13:14 php: rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for WIRED(opt3) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP ( ) Mar 30 19:13:16 php: rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for WIRED(opt3) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP ( ) Mar 30 19:13:16 check_reload_status: rc.newwanip starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:18 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: Informational is starting re2. Mar 30 19:13:18 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: on (IP address: ) (interface: opt3) (real interface: re2). Mar 30 19:13:18 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: Failed to update opt3 IP, restarting... Mar 30 19:13:24 php: rc.interfaces_wan_configure: The command '/sbin/ifconfig 're2' inet delete' returned exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address' Mar 30 19:13:24 check_reload_status: Linkup starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:24 kernel: re2: link state changed to DOWN Mar 30 19:13:26 check_reload_status: Linkup starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:26 kernel: re2: link state changed to UP Mar 30 19:13:26 php: rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for WIRED(opt3) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP ( ) Mar 30 19:13:29 php: rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for WIRED(opt3) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP ( ) Mar 30 19:13:29 check_reload_status: rc.newwanip starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:32 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: Informational is starting re2. Mar 30 19:13:32 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: on (IP address: ) (interface: opt3) (real interface: re2). Mar 30 19:13:32 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: Failed to update opt3 IP, restarting... Mar 30 19:13:32 check_reload_status: Configuring interface opt3 Mar 30 19:13:34 php: rc.interfaces_wan_configure: The command '/sbin/ifconfig 're2' inet delete' returned exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address' Mar 30 19:13:35 check_reload_status: Linkup starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:35 kernel: re2: link state changed to DOWN Mar 30 19:13:37 kernel: re2: link state changed to UP Mar 30 19:13:37 check_reload_status: Linkup starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:37 php: rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for WIRED(opt3) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP ( ) Mar 30 19:13:39 php: rc.linkup: Hotplug event detected for WIRED(opt3) but ignoring since interface is configured with static IP ( ) Mar 30 19:13:39 check_reload_status: rc.newwanip starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:42 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: Informational is starting re2. Mar 30 19:13:42 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: on (IP address: ) (interface: opt3) (real interface: re2). Mar 30 19:13:42 php: rc.newwanip: rc.newwanip: Failed to update opt3 IP, restarting... Mar 30 19:13:47 php: rc.interfaces_wan_configure: The command '/sbin/ifconfig 're2' inet delete' returned exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address' Mar 30 19:13:47 check_reload_status: Linkup starting re2 Mar 30 19:13:47 kernel: re2: link state changed to DOWN -
SpankIt, are you using 2.1?
This has been fixed in 2.1.1. There is a long thread about it somewhere.Steve
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Hi there!
I have an issue with APU1C and pfsense 2.1, the LiveCD is not booting. Here are more details:
Booting stops after "Starting the BTX loader" message.http://pcengines.info/forums/?page=post&id=2ADF62BD-420D-447D-A387-A9B047776417&fid=40251191-FF24-48A8-BB0E-995B04812ADE
Anyone has an idea what's wrong?
Bye
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Marama,
I didn't try to install from CD, instead I'd recommend to install via USB-Stick. Choose the amd64 memstick-image and follow the instructions to write the image to the stick. Mount it with a running freebsd and append 'console="comconsole" to /boot/loader.conf (don't forget to mount the stick and change the filepath - this is not copy & paste):
$ echo 'console="comconsole"' >> /$USB_MOUNT_POINT/boot/loader.confNow you're good to go. Boot from the USB- Stick and pass the following line to the kernel during startup:
$ set kern.cam.boot_delay=10000Now you can follow the install-scripts as described in various How-To's.
If you want to use an SD-Card, it's even simpler - just follow the instructions from the CF-Card install to the letter, but during first boot pass the
$ set kern.cam.boot_delay=10000line to the kernel, and everything works as expected. Once booted it's best to add the "kern.cam.boot_delay" statement to /boot/loader.conf. Don't forget to remount the partition before editing, it's readonly per default.
Have fun!
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Interrupt the boot loader.
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set kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
boot
After booting add kern.cam.boot_delay=1000 to /boot/loader.conf.local via edit or from console.sir could you please explain this further? how to do it etc..thanks
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Marama,
I didn't try to install from CD, instead I'd recommend to install via USB-Stick. Choose the amd64 memstick-image and follow the instructions to write the image to the stick. Mount it with a running freebsd and append 'console="comconsole" to /boot/loader.conf (don't forget to mount the stick and change the filepath - this is not copy & paste):
…Keychain, thanx for helping me out, but reseting from 115200 to 9600 seemed to have helped.
BTW, should I go for symmetric or embedded kernel? -
Interrupt the boot loader.
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set kern.cam.boot_delay=10000
boot
After booting add kern.cam.boot_delay=1000 to /boot/loader.conf.local via edit or from console.sir could you please explain this further? how to do it etc..thanks
It's been covered several times, most recently by keychain, but to make the process clear:
Write the nano image to the SD card using a card reader and physdiskwrite.
Connect a null modem cable to the serial port and use putty or similar to connect at 9600.
Power the unit up. You will see a bunch of garbage due to the console being at the wrong speed.
Eventually, you will see pfSense booting. When you see a message about 'Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]' press CTRL-C until it drops to an 'OK' prompt. If you miss it, shut down and try again.
At the prompt type:set kern.cam.boot_delay=10000Then press enter. It should return to the OK prompt. Then type:
bootand press enter. The unit should now boot. Assign interfaces. Remember re2 is the one marked 'LAN'
Log in to the webgui and go to diagnostics, edit file.
Enter:/boot/loader.conf.localin the save/load path. Then enter:
kern.cam.boot_delay=10000below and click the save button.
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SpankIt, are you using 2.1?
This has been fixed in 2.1.1. There is a long thread about it somewhere.Steve
I am using 2.1, thanks for the heads up I will give that a shot.
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should i use memstick or memstickserial image?
from the APU specs
Storage: Boot from SD card (connected through USB), external USB or m-SATA SSD. 1 SATA data + power connector.does this mean i have to still use a card reader and plug to the APU USB even there is a SD slot on board?
FYI ive used memstick image but ive never get to boot to pfsense at all
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@dotdash
should i use memstick or memstickserial image?I've been using the nano-2.11-pre-i386 image, writing it via a card reader, then putting it in the apu.
You could boot from USB memstick and install to the SD card if you want, but I haven't tried it.
Edit- If you choose to install from memstick, use the -serial version… -
Serial memstick (choose the Embedded kernel when installing) is the best bet for an mSATA.
For SD, you'll probably want NanoBSD but you'll need to make the kern.cam.boot_delay adjustment since the SD reader appears to the OS as a USB device even though it's internal.
You may also want these changes if you're on NanoBSD: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Boot_Troubleshooting#NanoBSD_on_Newer_Hardware
It may be time to lock this thread and start new ones for individual issues/suggestions. This has been going for a long time and has meandered through many distinct topics.
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does this mean i have to still use a card reader and plug to the APU USB even there is a SD slot on board?
No, this just means the built-in SD card reader is attached to the USB bus internally.
Edit: jimp beat me to it.
