Hardware for 1Gbps NAT and 100Mbps VPN
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@kejianshi
Thanks it was my false, that was for another set up with RouterOS! -
I'm not sure of boot issues.
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Why not use Innodisk DOM for the job?
http://surl.dk/elk/
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I want to keep NanoBSD as I consider it extra-safe, much better than the full install.
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Not sure. As in I think it should work fine but I'm not sure.
I don't own that one.
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use a supermicro c2758 based solution with ecc ram. you can use a sata-dom (SLC memory) for the OS.
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If you want to build something yourself the parts I outlined here should do the job. The hard drive can be replaced with a SATA to CF adapter and a high grade CF card or whatever if you feel like it.
If you don't want to put the parts together yourself you can get basically the same thing in a 1U case in the pfSense store.
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found this if you are in the USA
http://forums.redflagdeals.com/amazon-com-usa-lenovo-thinkserver-rd640-rack-server-447-98-orig-2-379-00-a-1653257/
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If you want to build something yourself the parts I outlined here should do the job. The hard drive can be replaced with a SATA to CF adapter and a high grade CF card or whatever if you feel like it.
That's exactly how I'm going to do.
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I haven't measured it personally but it does sit at 57C idle in a closet with no active cooling according to the coretemp driver built into pfSense. Under load it jumps up to 62C. The powerd service works perfectly with the board so the CPU frequency and voltage change dynamically based on system load.
However I have talked to someone who built the exact same system except he used a Samsung 840 Pro as the hard drive and according to his Kill-A-Watt meter the box drew 28 watts under max load.
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A1SRI-2758F - yes
Does it boot fom USB the NanoBSD image correctly? Or boot hacks need to be applied?
Okay, my A1SRI-2758F arrived yesterday. It boots perfectly the v2.2 4GB NanoBSD image from a USB stick plugged in either port (USB2, USB3 on the back, or USB3 header inside the board).
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It also boots perfectly the NanoBSD image from a 4GB CF card connected with a SATA adapter to port SATA2 (the first of the black ones, in bios set to IDE mode instead of AHCI). It doesn't boot it if the adapter connects to a SATA3 port (white conector on the board), but that's because I guess my CF-to-SATA adapter is only SATA2 compatible.
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I want to keep NanoBSD as I consider it extra-safe, much better than the full install.
Can you elaborate? I am thinking of using the same motherboard to build pfSense for my home. I was planning on using a SSD, but may consider a USB stick.
I would also be curious to see your throughput with the build. I will be getting symmetrical Gigabit service soon and would like to build something that will give me the fastest throughput.
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For the Asus eee box desktop computer network drivers problem, i think you can download a free drivers helper software to helps you. You can find one from cnet or google.
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I want to keep NanoBSD as I consider it extra-safe, much better than the full install.
Can you elaborate? I am thinking of using the same motherboard to build pfSense for my home. I was planning on using a SSD, but may consider a USB stick.
I would also be curious to see your throughput with the build. I will be getting symmetrical Gigabit service soon and would like to build something that will give me the fastest throughput.
Read Full Install and NanoBSD Comparison. NanoBSD is by design a more "industrial" approach to running such a system in an embedded manner.
Unless you're using some disk-intensive extra packages on pfSense, I see no reason to run a full install at all.I did test with a couple of USB sticks, they all booted fine and quickly (these are good at read speeds). Installing packages afterwards turned out to be very slow with USB sticks, and one of them failed during such an install (maybe it was defective in the first place). Turned to SATA-connected CF card by means of an adapter, and got back well-known reliability.
I like the CF card approach because I can mount it on the case so that the CF itself is accessible from the front panel without having to actually open the case, so I can replace the CF card without having to remove the entire appliance from the rack and open the case.Didn't do reliable throughput tests yet, a quick speedtest.net in the evening showed 750Mbit+ download speed with CPU at about 20% usage.
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Hmm, is it normal for those boards to kind of tilt when they get hotter? I just got my A1SRi-2758F and while installing pfSense suddenly nearly every process segfaulted. At first I thought my RAM was bad and tried my two 4G modules alone but that did not help. Connected a Linux HDD which segfaulted, too.
Then I took a small fan and put it on the CPU heat sink, suddenly all my problems went away. Strange, because according to IMPI every sensor was green (CPU, RAM, Power…) when the board started freaking out.
It's about 25-27 degrees Celsius here in the room and the CPU was about 50 to 60 degrees when the segfaults began.
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I've had one of them running for about 1 month in a pretty warm rack, according to pfSense dashboard the CPU was at 70 Celsius when idle. It had absolutely no problems at all.
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Keep in mind that few, if any, motherboard temperature sensors are calibrated to. You could have two sensors sitting side by side on the motherboard and one might be as much as 10C different from the others.
Motherboard / CPU sensors are great for measuring change in temperature (i.e. is it hotter or colder then yesterday), but not so much for absolute temperature values.
