State of MBT-2220/MBT-4220?
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Interesting.
Do you happen to know if any European distributor sells the MBT-4220 or are these generally only sold directly by Netgate? -
@goodthings said in State of MBT-2220/MBT-4220?:
Interesting.
Do you happen to know if any European distributor sells the MBT-4220 or are these generally only sold directly by Netgate?Not off the top of my head, but if you ask sales@netgate.com they would be able to tell you for sure.
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i replaced a sg2220 with a mbt-4220 and the switch over took all of maybe 15 minutes
you will be very happy with your purchase. i am
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I bought an MBT-4220 a couple of weeks ago, and am about to replace my DIY atom-based pfSense router with it today.
I did have some stability problems but I think it may have been due to imported settings from my other system that weren't compatible. If I do a base install of pfSense and just use it like that (I put my work laptop behind it for a business day), it's stable. But just today while writing up this response, after importing my settings from another system, it locked up on me again.
Is there a "best practice" list of settings such as thermal/crypto settings, powerd, any tunables, etc. for this specific board? It appears that the following work fine (but I haven't A/B tested anything yet):
- AES-NI CPU-based Acceleration
- Intel Core CPU on-die thermal sensor
- Enable PowerD, Hiadaptive
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i have aes enabled.
temp die enabled. with the fan unplugged. it stays around 56c
mine is on adaptive and stays around 6-700Mghz and runs 2 openvpn tunnels with no issues
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@bcruze I was seeing higher temps with the fan unplugged, so I sourced a 35x35x20mm heat sink, search for LPD35-20B by Alpha Co. It works great.
In fact I got a lot of 10 on eBay cheaper than I could find one shipped anywhere else. Seller wanted $12 plus $6 shipping, I used the “make offer” function and offered $11 total shipped and he accepted.
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if at anything above adaptive mine did go up about 10 degrees
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@bcruze Yes, I had mine on Highadaptive. I tested with the fan unplugged (stock heatsink) by loading up the processor, one core at a time, and wasn't comfortable with it going up into the 70C+ range. With this 20mm tall elliptical fin heat sink (with the case sitting on its side with rubber feet attached) the temps are quite sane.
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Looks like they dropped the price on the MBT-4220 by $100 (list) and $50 under the prior "sale" price. https://store.netgate.com/MBT-4220-system.aspx
So it looks like I overpaid by $50 for it.
Maybe they can send me a consolation prize. -
I've recently purchased and configured from scratch my first pfSense box using the MBT-4220. It's been running well for about a week now and I'll have a few weeks further to evaluate it and tweak it. This MBT-4220 is a great replacement for a quite old FreeBSD system I've not upgraded in years.
For home use this is more than adequate and meets my needs:
- DHCP pools and static mapping
- OpenSSH user shell
- OpenVPN connection for family mobile devices
- traffic mapping using ntopng
*Queing
*Squid/squidguard
Many of these things I configured by hand in the past but now have everything in a nice little box. Wifi access is provided by a separate wifi router.
I've read about replacing the fan with a heat sink so I'm investigating that as a possible upgrade.
For home the cpu runs 4-10% depending on activity and ntopng. Load averages are about 0.24 with a video stream running. Temperature with the fan is about 38-40°C.
Configuring OpenVPN for my family's phones and PCs is pretty simple. It's been good to add squidguard on the OpenVPN interfaces so I can filter out the trackers and ads (and other unwanted content).
