PfSense with Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V
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I bought this board (only found out about this thread afterwards) last Monday, together with 2 x 4GB Crucial Ballistix @ 1.35V and a 60GB Kingston (SSDNow). After having upgraded to F2 (which was indeed a bit of a pain) I got 2.2-ALPHA running without further issues. I followed the guides elsewhere on the forum and enabled CSM as well as disabling C-State. I've also enabled TRIM support by rebooting into single-user mode and running 'tunefs -t enable /'.
As mentioned, running smooth now and not seeing any issues (yet). Will keep it running for another night before replacing my old firewall though (m0n0wall on an ancient Nokia IP110), just to be sure :)
Just thought I'd share some positive news, hope this helps somebody!
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awesome dwaler! keep up posted.
I am really liking this board. I'm itching to put it in a m-350 mini-itx case with a pico psu and have a super small form factor pfsense box.
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Hey Everyone, this is my first post so I say hello!
I bought this board as soon as I figured out I wanted to build a pfsense box, without looking into all the troubles it had. I experienced so many problems trying to get it installed, I just left it alone for a week because I had lost all patience.
I tried 32 and 64 bit versions of the live usb, then live dvd, always to encounter either intermittent usb failure during install, complete lack of usb function at all, kernel panics, would get to install on hard drive, then when booted there were geometry errors. I tried many times to install windows 8.1 so I could update to bios version F2 but always failed miserably. So still on Bios F1.
I downloaded version 2.1.3 , then went into bios and set my cpu to 1 core. loaded the dvd and BOOM, it decided that it would boot and then properly install for me, much to my disbelief. I then rebooted and switched back to all 4 cpu cores and It has now been running stable for 3 days with an openvpn tunnel and zero errors!
I hope this helps some of you with all the problems you are having with this board!
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Hey Everyone, this is my first post so I say hello!
I bought this board as soon as I figured out I wanted to build a pfsense box, without looking into all the troubles it had. I experienced so many problems trying to get it installed, I just left it alone for a week because I had lost all patience.
I tried 32 and 64 bit versions of the live usb, then live dvd, always to encounter either intermittent usb failure during install, complete lack of usb function at all, kernel panics, would get to install on hard drive, then when booted there were geometry errors. I tried many times to install windows 8.1 so I could update to bios version F2 but always failed miserably. So still on Bios F1.
I downloaded version 2.1.3 , then went into bios and set my cpu to 1 core. loaded the dvd and BOOM, it decided that it would boot and then properly install for me, much to my disbelief. I then rebooted and switched back to all 4 cpu cores and It has now been running stable for 3 days with an openvpn tunnel and zero errors!
I hope this helps some of you with all the problems you are having with this board!
Where in the bios do you see the option to disable the cores? I'm on the F2 bios so not sure if that makes a difference. I am having no luck getting this board to boot 2.1.3.
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I just wanted to add that I'm running the GA-C1037UN-EU board earlier mentioned in this thread.
I'm running it with an additional NIC in the PCI port, so have three NICs all in all. I also use vlans and everything is working great.
I run it of an SSD and everything is very low temperature. I have a slow running 120mm case fan but I think it is not needed.
It's been running it 24/7 since last year, so about 6-7 months now. Highly recommended. ;D ;D ;D
The only drawback is that it's PCI and not PCIe if you want to add a dual or quad network card. A regular pci slot can handle one gigabit without trouble. But perhaps it's academic anyway since there are usually data bottlenecks elsewhere in the chipset and the cpu.
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First post, so… hello :D
This mb work well with the last release of pfsense? And what about the realtek lan?
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Does it work better with Bios F3 version?
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Looks like it should be:
@http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=585025&sid=956a29819e12154d85832fd26f45d365#p585025:I have to say that the F3C BIOS seems quite stable, it provides a lot of previously missing options (working PXE legacy boot, USB support, advanced options)
Steve
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did pfsense support the onboard nic.
gigabyte website did not state the model of the nic chip. (i think it may be 8111G??? not sure :'() -
@pete.s.:
I just wanted to add that I'm running the GA-C1037UN-EU board earlier mentioned in this thread.
I'm running it with an additional NIC in the PCI port, so have three NICs all in all. I also use vlans and everything is working great.
I run it of an SSD and everything is very low temperature. I have a slow running 120mm case fan but I think it is not needed.
It's been running it 24/7 since last year, so about 6-7 months now. Highly recommended. ;D ;D ;D
The only drawback is that it's PCI and not PCIe if you want to add a dual or quad network card. A regular pci slot can handle one gigabit without trouble. But perhaps it's academic anyway since there are usually data bottlenecks elsewhere in the chipset and the cpu.
I've bought the GA-C1037UN-EU under the impression that it would be no problem, but now the NIC's don't get an IP from the DHCP server. Do I have to copy the if_re.ko from topics in this forum (see https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=65355.30) ?
uname0u gives FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p16
How did you install this c1037un board?
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If you've assigned the interface as type DHCP then it is appearing correctly, the driver is not the problem.
What have you done so far?Steve
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If you've assigned the interface as type DHCP then it is appearing correctly, the driver is not the problem.
What have you done so far?Steve
I've installed pfSense, assigned the re0 to the WAN interface (DHCP) an plugged in the cable modem (after properly powercycling it). Alas…no IP. Then I've connected the WAN to my old pfSense LAN and I can see in the old pfSense log that it is indeed giving out a DHCP ip, but all the c1037un does is sending more requests for an IP.
Then I've changed the etc.conf with the following :synchronous_dhclient="YES". Still no IP...
Then I've loaded the if_re.ko from various posts in this forum (https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=65355.45) to /boot/kernel and /boot/modules. Also added if_re_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf.local.
Still no IP :-X
From what I gather Realtek changes it hardware sometimes without changing the model number, thus it might work for one person but not for the next >:(
I'm at a loss now, with the Ubuntu live CD the nics work flawlessly and get an IP. Maybe I have to virtualize pfSense just to get it working?
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Hmm, well that's odd behaviour. You could well be right, Realtek do like to change hardware.
What does pciconf list the NIC as? The PCI revision usually indicates what the NIC type is.Steve
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Hmm, well that's odd behaviour. You could well be right, Realtek do like to change hardware.
What does pciconf list the NIC as? The PCI revision usually indicates what the NIC type is.Steve
Due to the problems with the nic on bare-metal pfSense I've decided to use esxi and run pfSense on top of that. As it turns out this is something I should've done right from the beginning, it works perfect.
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Any new information regarding this board? Does the NIC's works out of the box?
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Which board? There are two being discussed here.
Steve
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Which board? There are two being discussed here.
Steve
Oh, the topic board, GA-J1900N-D3V. But GA-C1037UN-EU as well then.
@pete.s.:
I just wanted to add that I'm running the GA-C1037UN-EU board earlier mentioned in this thread.
I'm running it with an additional NIC in the PCI port, so have three NICs all in all. I also use vlans and everything is working great.
Due to the problems with the nic on bare-metal pfSense I've decided to use esxi and run pfSense on top of that. As it turns out this is something I should've done right from the beginning, it works perfect.
So I'm kinda torn here if it's working or not. At the moment these two motherboard are the only ones I can get my hands on in my area that have 2x onboard NIC's :/
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It's hard to know. It appears from the comments here that Gigabyte may have changed the chip on the board or Realtek updated it somehow on the GA-C1037UN.
The GA-J1900N-D3V doesn't have any reported issues with the NIC if you can get pfSense installed in the first place. ::)Steve
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It's hard to know. It appears from the comments here that Gigabyte may have changed the chip on the board or Realtek updated it somehow on the GA-C1037UN.
The GA-J1900N-D3V doesn't have any reported issues with the NIC if you can get pfSense installed in the first place. ::)Steve
Heh, I see. I will then order the GA-J1900N-D3V and report back in a few days ;)
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Have you read this whole thread?
There are people who have failed to make pfSense boot at all on that board.Steve
