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?
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