Need help to build my first pfSense router
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What about the GA-C1037UN?
How does the Celeron 1037U compare to the J1900? Anyone got experience there?
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for a singlee wan on say rogers cable or bell dsl, but not say dotto one gigbit fiber
this is probably less hassle versus using old stuff, and will outperform it while consuming far less power
GIGABYTE GA-J1900N-D3V
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00J0P042U/ref=asc_df_B00J0P042U3667446?smid=A19N3NI8X4F24J&linkCode=df0&creative=395393&creativeASIN=B00J0P042U&tag=shopbotca-20
or
http://www.ecsrv.com/ShopSearchPage.aspx?No=220146&ST=GA-J1900N-D3V
or
http://www.memorydepot.com/detail/GA-J1900N-D3V.html
add 4-8gb (i suggest 8gb of laptop ddr3l and you are setuse a small ssd or hd,etc - i suggest the sandisk 128gb that goes on sale for $60 cdne very so often at canadacomputers and ncix
Thanks
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What about the GA-C1037UN?
How does the Celeron 1037U compare to the J1900? Anyone got experience there?
obsolete vesus the q1900.
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once you add pci gigabit network cards or a dual nic pcie card and a pci video card - not much cheaper than going q1900. the q1900 is faster and uses less power, and is itx
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So this leaves the only two possible options:
- Gigabyte J1900 with dual lan
- ASRock Q1900M with dual nic card
Do you know if they still got problems with the BIOS or which one I should choose there? Really confused right now and don't know what to buy. I need to put everything in a 19" server case.
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the latest gigabyte boards come with an updated bios. a pain because you need windowZ to update the bios, but a BartPE bootdisk can be used
the asrock q1900 is an option, so is their amd a5-5000 itx with an intel lan
people seem to be having luck with the gigabyte setup. i would push for that.
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Something on top to upgrade this board would be the option to insert a
Soekris vpn1401 PCI card to get a better VPN throughput. -
@BlueKobold:
Something on top to upgrade this board would be the option to insert a
Soekris vpn1401 PCI card to get a better VPN throughput.Can't find this card at North America Market. Anyway, I have ordered Supermicro A1SRi-2558F board, 1 x Kingston ValueRAM 8G ECC ram here in Canada, and a mini ITX box from China, going to build a new box next month. So far the old machine is running very well with 250/20 internet
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Can't find this card at North America Market.
I have ordered Supermicro A1SRi-2558F
Yup this sounds really good to me!
So far the old machine is running very well with 250/20 internet
Good to know what we can expect from the hardware, thanks.
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@BlueKobold:
I have ordered Supermicro A1SRi-2558F
Yup this sounds really good to me!
BTW, Should I need to turn on PowerD in pfSense using this mobo?
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On a board such the Supermicro A1SRi-2558F I would be trying out some
tunings points or tips be sure on this! But this is not a must be for me
but if this is something, the system gets a benefit from or runs more liquid
or stable I will use them all or only some. How I said I test them all out and
not inserting them all plain.pfSense:
- enabling Trim support - Supermicro SATA DOM SSD or SATA-DOM or SSD
- PowerD adaptive or high adaptive mode - Intel SoC
- increasing mbufs sizes - GB LAN Ports
I would be writing it to a local.loader.conf file because after a reboot this changes would be gone if not done so,
if not I would them make backwards to the default configs.Squid:
- Giving Squid more RAM for caching (4 GB RAM) - (cache_mem 4000 MB)
- changing memory cache mode (always, disk or network) - (memory_cache_mode disk)
- set the allowed maximum object size in memory cache to 1 MB - (maximum_object_size_in_memory 1 MB)
There are many many more things such as this for sure, but I really don´t need that stuff at all
and this some points making sin in my eyes to come closer to the point that I only want a stable
and fast system.Here are some of the websites I get my stuff from if you are interested in:
Squid Package Tuning
Tuning and Troubleshooting Network Cards
SQUID PROXY SERVER: FINE TUNING TO ACHIEVE BETTER PERFORMANCE