Supermicro X9SBAA-F

[eSpezi]

Hi cmcologne,

before you spend too many time with hacking the current release of pfS, I would recommend to try out the 2.2-ALPHA
Snapshots here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=74154.0

I installed it yesterday on a Supermicro 5018A-FTN as the current 2.1.5-RELEASE had some strange behavior on that system.
The 2.2 Snapshot seems to work pretty well (at least in my test environment) and even seems to support USB 3.0 as it is freeBSD 10.1 based (did recognize the USB 3.0 Ports on my board).

I would not be comfortable with putting this system in production, but as rumours say the core functions of 2.2 are pretty stable and 2.2 should change to beta status in the near future.
For me not using any fancy stuff (IPSEC still seems to have issues), the 2.2 works pretty well so far and I'm happy that it finally supports more current hardware.

Give it a shot, it doesn't hurt :-)

Good Luck!
Harry

[cmcologne]

Hi eSPezi,

thanks for this advice. Can you confirm OpenVPN Client and Server is working?

[eSpezi]

Sorry, I haven't tried OVPN yet on 2.2

As the changes with OVPN are not as huge as with IPSEC (migration from racoon to openSwan) I suspect it should work.
To be 100% shure, you will have to test it yourself…

[bigbird007]

@eSpezi ill give that alpha snap shot a try over the weekend even though it's alpha im interested to see how it goes with usb 3.0

[Moosecall]

I have a box running 2.2 with a snapshot of Sep 12 and openvpn works fine as a server and a client.

[bigbird007]

@Moosecall  did you get it running on a Supermicro X9SBAA-F ?

[charliem]

@eSpezi:

I would not be comfortable with putting this system in production, but as rumours say the core functions of 2.2 are pretty stable and 2.2 should change to beta status in the near future.

It was just changed to beta today, in fact :)

For me not using any fancy stuff (IPSEC still seems to have issues), the 2.2 works pretty well so far and I'm happy that it finally supports more current hardware.

If you do find any issues, please post them over in the 2.2 forum.  And yes, I have some IPsec issues at the moment, maybe related to the change from strongswan 5.1.3 to 5.2.0.

[bigbird007]

I'm able to boot up of the live cd beta and have it detect  usb 3.0 This is great.

Unfortunately for me I have to wait for this to be a released stable version as this needs to be in a full production environment.

I will try and test this over the next weekend and see how it goes

beers for everyone , this is a glorious day  :)

[SkyNET]

Hi guys, this might not be the answer you all looking for,
but If you really want to run pfsense 2.1.5 on the X8SBAA-f you can do so with a VM on ESXi.

It runs like it should and provide around 180+ MBit lan->wan speed.

Check this link how to get ESXi running on the Supermicro X9SBAA-F
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/447162


[bigbird007]

I installed 2.2 RC x64 today and so far so good.
Using 3% Memory and 36% MBUF usage
Load average is 0.08, 0.03, 0.01

Total memory on this system is 8gb

One thing i have noticed is that when i go to network in windows i do not see any computers or devices , however i can use windows explorer to find them either by
ip or hostname.
Not sure what is going on hear.
Anyway i thought i would let you guys know that 2.2 RC installed no problem on the Supermicro X9SBAA-F

[SkyNET]

Succes guys! The new 2.2 release works flawlessly!!

Installed it native and get around 450-500MBit of throughput via iperf from a host connected at LAN accessing a host via WAN.
Speed depends on the packages that inspect all trafic. pfblocker, snort etc.
Making use of the multi-core processor is much better now!

Finally a good purpose for this board! Enjoy guys!

Greetings!

[bigbird007]

Awesome work guys on releasing 2.2
No more expensive paper weight laying around  :)
Thanks guys for all your hard work