SG Series desktop appliances

SteveITS

Yes, it's compatible. All Netgate / pfSense hardware has AES-NI or its own cryptographic accelerators required for 2.5.

Hi Ivor, do you know which Advanced/Miscellaneous/"Cryptographic Hardware" option to use for the SG-3100? (hardware shows Crypto: Marvell Cryptographic Engine and Security Accelerator)

(we restored a configuration from other hardware to it before checking the default setting, unfortunately)

ivor

Does it show none? No need for any just yet.

SteveITS

Yes, I can pick None. I just thought there should be an applicable choice since there is apparently the hardware for it.

SteveITS

I found two SG-3100s today and both are set to "BSD Crypto Device (cryptodev)" so I gather that is the default/correct setting.

mrdoork

Hello I am totally new to pfSense and dont have too much experience with network equipment and terms. I need a router for a 1gbps up and down connection, we'll be 2-3 users, will this be a good option?

It says 1gbps but does that mean that technically I would be able to upload at 1gbps while also downloading at the same speed? Or does 1gbps mean total?

Also, we play games pretty competitively which require good latency, are there any reasons why this would be a poor choice for that? Would it be better?

Any kind of tips appreciated

SteveITS

@mrdoork:

Hello I am totally new to pfSense and dont have too much experience with network equipment and terms. I need a router for a 1gbps up and down connection, we'll be 2-3 users, will this be a good option?

It says 1gbps but does that mean that technically I would be able to upload at 1gbps while also downloading at the same speed? Or does 1gbps mean total?

Also, we play games pretty competitively which require good latency, are there any reasons why this would be a poor choice for that? Would it be better?

Your message isn't quite clear which Netgate router you're asking about…the SG-3100? (https://www.netgate.com/solutions/pfsense/sg-3100.html) We've installed a few already, have one for our building, and even used one as a temporary router in our data center (long story) with no performance issues. A 1 Gbps port can generally do that both up and down in full duplex mode but it also depends on your switch (or router, whatever is next in the chain) and of course your Internet connection which is likely slower than that. Latency is probably far more dependent on your Internet connection than the router.

mrdoork

oh yeah sorry, I meant sg-3100 yes I forgot theres more in the series..

But yeah great, I think I'll just go for this then it looks pretty good

hudhacks

@ivor:

The SG-3100 will have a recovery partition which will allow you to always reinstall your SG-3100 without downloading images. You will always be able to use the factory version, not Community Edition.

@ivor - Why not able to use the Community Edition?

What is the main differences between Factory & Community Edition?

tia,
hud

ivor

This was discussed many times, there are no differences from factory and community edition apart from device specific tuning on factory and AWS / IPsec wizards. Community edition is a way to differentiate official appliances from 3rd party ones.

hudhacks

Thanks! Buying sg-3100 right now

ivor

Thank you! Let us know your experience with SG-3100 :)