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    NEW Intel Xeon D-1500 SoC - ideal for high performance, low-power pfSense inst.?

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      Harvy66
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      That is wicked!

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        Guest
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        @sodupuc:

        Hope that pfSense support will follow soon…

        Must… not... leak...

        OK, what do you think the DPDK effort is about?

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          heper
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          could/would you elaborate on the impact of "DPDK" ?

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            Guest
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            Please tell me we don't have another form factor…

            Extended ITX

            Looks like what i would call Micro ATX back in the day...

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              jasonlitka
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              I'm really excited about these.  The existing E3 systems are capped at 32GB of RAM & 4 cores and that makes them more or less useless for virtualization, even in a dev environment.

              One thing I'm not seeing here is QuickAssist.  gonzopancho, any idea if that's included or if it would require a PCI-e accelerator?

              I can break anything.

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                jasonlitka
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                @heper:

                could/would you elaborate on the impact of "DPDK" ?

                http://dpdk.org/

                It's what will allow (fingers crossed) pfSense to forward packets at 10Gbe or faster.

                I can break anything.

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                  Guest
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                  @Jason:

                  I'm really excited about these.  The existing E3 systems are capped at 32GB of RAM & 4 cores and that makes them more or less useless for virtualization, even in a dev environment.

                  One thing I'm not seeing here is QuickAssist.  gonzopancho, any idea if that's included or if it would require a PCI-e accelerator?

                  Yeah, that's POR.  See blog post.

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                    Guest
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                    @Jason:

                    @heper:

                    could/would you elaborate on the impact of "DPDK" ?

                    http://dpdk.org/

                    It's what will allow (fingers crossed) pfSense to forward packets at 10Gbe or faster.

                    See today's blog post. :-)

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                      messerchmidt
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                      overkill, but i like it  8)

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                        Guest
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                        Overkill for a 100Mbps cable connection?  Yes.

                        Overkill for multiple 10Gbps connections with DPI and IPsec?  No.

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                          ZGamer
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                          Overkill for smaller installs, even the 4-core variant. But yes, if you actually can utilize those 10GB interface, it hopefully will be able to keep up. The 8-core variant I'm here is somewhere around the $800-$1,000 price point, no specific dollar amount has been said about the 4-core board complete….though CPU list price is just under $400 less which would put the starting price around $400 (Avoton replacement?? just not atom) without 10GB...add probably an extra $80-100 for the 10GB.

                          I'm waiting for a few vendors to get on-board in Q2/Q3 and offer 1U barebone shallow-depth setups....pretty snazzy.

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