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    • QinnQ
      Qinn @dem
      last edited by Qinn

      @dem said in PC Engines apu2 experiences:

      @vollans I did a quick test in a virtual machine to figure out what the commands would be. This appears to work:

      On a running 2.4.5-p1 system:

      zpool checkpoint zroot
      

      Booted from the 2.5.0 installer and in the Rescue Shell:

      zpool import -f -N --rewind-to-checkpoint zroot
      zpool export zroot
      poweroff
      

      I would like to know how you booted from the 2.5.0 installer using a virtual pfsense machine and got to the Rescue Shell?

      Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
      Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
      Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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      • demD
        dem @Qinn
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        @qinn In VirtualBox I put the file pfSense-CE-2.5.0-RELEASE-amd64.iso in the virtual optical drive and booted to this screen, where I selected Rescue Shell:

        02_rescue.png

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        • QinnQ
          Qinn @dem
          last edited by

          @dem Thanks for the quick reply, I understand that.
          What I would like to know is how you get to the Virtual pfSense from here as the virtual pfsense machine is not running and access the checkpoint you made?

          Btw I am using VM workstation!

          Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
          Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
          Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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          • demD
            dem @Qinn
            last edited by dem

            @qinn Sorry I wasn't clear: I put the installer image into the virtual optical drive of the same virtual pfSense instance that I checkpointed, so the installer has access to the same virtual disk and can locate the checkpointed zroot pool.

            Edited to add: My goal was to simulate booting an apu2 from the memstick image in order to rewind a checkpoint, but I don't have a spare apu2 to test with. If I actually ran pfSense in a virtual machine I would use virtual machine snapshots before any upgrade.

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              VAMike @Qinn
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              @qinn I never would have guessed this was somehow specific to the apu2

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              • demD
                dem @VAMike
                last edited by

                @vamike It's not, but @vollans rolled back an upgrade of his apu2 using ZFS and that sparked interest in using ZFS to recover from a failed upgrade.

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                  VAMike @dem
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                  @dem so he should start another thread so that people actually interested in apu2 experiences can find those without digging through unrelated zfs support questions

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                    Vollans @VAMike
                    last edited by

                    @vamike I agreed it wasn't relevant here 2 days ago, and stopped responding. 🤷

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                      sikita
                      last edited by sikita

                      Why pfsense 2.5 shows "AES-NI CPU Crypto: No" when in 2.4.x there was YES on APU2? Also on 2.5 there is in other line: Hardware crypto AES-CBC,AES-CCM,AES-GCM,AES-ICM,AES-XTS

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                        bigsy @sikita
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                        @sikita said in PC Engines apu2 experiences:

                        Why pfsense 2.5 shows "AES-NI CPU Crypto: No" when in 2.4.x there was YES on APU2?

                        Anything to do with this problem? If so, it appears to be fixed in 2.5.1.

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                          sikita @bigsy
                          last edited by sikita

                          @bigsy Ok, thank you. Seems to be GUI bug and does not involve using HW crypto.

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                          • QinnQ
                            Qinn @sikita
                            last edited by Qinn

                            @sikita I am on pfSense 2.5.0 and here it says:

                            Firefox_Screenshot_2021-03-12T16-51-01.718Z.png

                            Do you have AES-NI enabled?

                            Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
                            Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
                            Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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                            • QinnQ
                              Qinn @Qinn
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                              Can anyone share there System / Advanced / Networking on a APU2

                              Mine are

                              Firefox_Screenshot_2021-03-19T11-29-42.923Z.png

                              as these are the defaults, grabbed them from a VM installation, which is not quit the same setup.

                              The old and not anymore recommend settings from https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/apu2-1-gigabit-throughput-pfsense/ are quit different!

                              ...and there is a new settings present in 2.5.0. " hn ALTQ support"

                              Could anyone elaborate on all these or there settings?

                              Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
                              Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
                              Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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                              • stephenw10S
                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by

                                There are no hn NICs on any APU so it makes no difference. You can disable it.

                                Steve

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                                • valnarV
                                  valnar
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                                  I performed all the bootloader and other tweaks mentioned in various threads throughout the years on my <= 2.45-p1 installation and now I don't remember what they all are. It would be great if somebody could post what things to look for (to remove?) when you update your apu2 from 2.4.5 --> 2.5.0.

                                  At the moment because of the performance issues, I'm not upgrading.

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                                  • DaddyGoD
                                    DaddyGo @valnar
                                    last edited by DaddyGo

                                    @valnar said in PC Engines apu2 experiences:

                                    when you update your apu2 from 2.4.5 --> 2.5.0.

                                    Hi,

                                    With that, I would wait a little longer 😉

                                    here,....you will find a lot of useful info if you even decide to upgrade...
                                    https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/
                                    https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/apu2-1-gigabit-throughput-pfsense/

                                    +++edit:
                                    and of course
                                    https://pcengines.github.io/

                                    Cats bury it so they can't see it!
                                    (You know what I mean if you have a cat)

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                                    • QinnQ
                                      Qinn
                                      last edited by

                                      Smooth update to pfSense 2.5.1 CE

                                      Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
                                      Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
                                      Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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                                      • QinnQ
                                        Qinn
                                        last edited by Qinn

                                        Updated to bios coreboot v4.13.05.

                                        Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
                                        Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
                                        Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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                                          FLOK @Qinn
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                                          @qinn Fine !
                                          I am still on 2.4.5_1.
                                          Did you notice any performance degradation ?

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                                          • QinnQ
                                            Qinn @FLOK
                                            last edited by

                                            @flok No, so far not.

                                            Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
                                            Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
                                            Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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