New hardware
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No matter what it will soon be new hardware day. That's a happy occasion. Cheers!
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One other thing I just noticed about the Netgate box. It doesn't appear to have a video port. That's not critical, as I do have a USB serial port, but I have a 4 port HDMI/USB KVM, which I used to connect to my old firewall. I could just switch from my computer to my firewall as needed.
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@jknott Yeah. The Qotom has a HDMI port and a serial port. I'm assuming you can select the HDMI in bios settings and that will work perfectly.
If I need to get at the console it's because something is very wrong. Last thing I want to do is mess around with a serial console cable and putty.
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@jwj said in New hardware:
Last thing I want to do is mess around with a serial console cable and putty.
I've used serial ports enough times over the years, that's not an issue for me. I'd just need a gender bender, as that appears to be a male connector on it. I've made up enough of those and probably have a couple around here. I bought that adapter years ago, to configure telecom gear.
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So, pros and cons of each?
Shortly, summer, they'll be running the same version of pfSense, pfSense +.
I think the SG line will be "tuned" (system tunable, etc) out of the box, I'm not sure that's a big differentiator.
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@jknott said in New hardware:
@jwj said in New hardware:
Last thing I want to do is mess around with a serial console cable and putty.
I've used serial ports enough times over the years, that's not an issue for me. I'd just need a gender bender, as that appears to be a male connector on it. I've made up enough of those and probably have a couple around here. I bought that adapter years ago, to configure telecom gear.
I'm using the Qotoms w. serial.
You can set (in bios) "Console" as serial (Ie. VT100) , and then even the Bios settings can be accessed via "Putty".You need a (USB) Serial , and a NULL-Modem cable.
/Bingo
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@bingo600 said in New hardware:
@jknott said in New hardware:
@jwj said in New hardware:
Last thing I want to do is mess around with a serial console cable and putty.
I'm using the Qotoms w. serial.
So do I here! Its not exactly a Qotom - I bought that Box from a Shop called Kettop - but looks like a Qotom. (I guess its a rebranded Qotom because dmidecode says: Product Name: Q3XXG4-P)
I choose to add myself the RAM because I read that the RAM those boxes come with are not quite reliable.You can set (in bios) "Console" as serial (Ie. VT100) , and then even the Bios settings can be accessed via "Putty".
You need a (USB) Serial , and a NULL-Modem cable.
Exact! (I had a original serial cable and a machine with a real serial port - left over from Fido-Modem-Times
)/Bingo
Regards,
fireodo -
I have just ordered the Qotom.
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my folks are checkin this piece of hardware right now!
thanks for reminder.
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The new computer has arrived. It took 1 week from Hong Kong to here, including 1 day wasted by DHL claiming I declined delivery when they didn't even come to my door.
One thing I've noticed is pfsense shows the AES-NI instructions are available, but inactive. Will they become active, once I have my VPN set up?
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@jknott said in New hardware:
One thing I've noticed is pfsense shows the AES-NI instructions are available, but inactive. Will they become active, once I have my VPN set up?
Advanced settings, Misc, part way down select Cryptographic Hardware dropdown and choose AES-NI :)
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I just ran speedtest and here are my results:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/10868527865
This is on a 500/20 connection and I had never seen more than about 575 down previously. I guess that i5 makes a bit of difference, compared to the Athlon 3200+ I had before. It's also faster booting up.
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@jknott Nice. That's way over provisioned. I've seen 10-15% over but never that much. Shhhhh.... Don't say anything or they'll reprovision your service :)
How's buffer bloat with your service?
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My ISP almost always has better than advertised bandwidth, but with the new firewall, I'm getting even better than before. I haven't noticed any buffer bloat, but then I haven't checked.
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@jknott I'm curious. http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest will measure buffer bloat.
~700-20 is very async, I would expect some buffer bloat. fq-codel limiter will fix that right up. Although if you have a nice cable modem it might be handled by the modem...
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This is what I see. Sometimes you have to run it a few times to get it to measure buffer bloat. I know that makes no sense but that is what I have experienced.
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@jwj said in New hardware:
This is what I see. Sometimes you have to run it a few times to get it to measure buffer bloat. I know that makes no sense but that is what I have experienced.
This morning, I ran it once and it gives me an A for buffer bloat.
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@jknott That’s great. How do you like it so far? Feel back to normal?
