PC Engines apu2 experiences
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@qinn In VirtualBox I put the file
pfSense-CE-2.5.0-RELEASE-amd64.isoin the virtual optical drive and booted to this screen, where I selected Rescue Shell:
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@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 -
@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
zrootpool.Edited to add: My goal was to simulate booting an apu2 from the
memstickimage 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. -
@qinn I never would have guessed this was somehow specific to the apu2
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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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@vamike I agreed it wasn't relevant here 2 days ago, and stopped responding.
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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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@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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@bigsy Ok, thank you. Seems to be GUI bug and does not involve using HW crypto.
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Can anyone share there System / Advanced / Networking on a APU2
Mine are
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?
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There are no hn NICs on any APU so it makes no difference. You can disable it.
Steve
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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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@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/ -
Smooth update to pfSense 2.5.1 CE
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Updated to bios coreboot v4.13.05.
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@qinn Fine !
I am still on 2.4.5_1.
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@flok No, so far not.
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I received an email notification about v4.14.0.2 and this IMPORTANT message was included:
To update the firmware and keep the runtime configuration unchanged please use the following command:
flashrom -p internal -w apuX_v4.14.0.2.rom --fmap -i COREBOOT
The persistent runtime configuration works only when migrating from versions v4.14.0.1 and later. The feature is not yet supported on apu1. Flashrom version needs to be v1.1 or newer.I did the upgrade from v4.14.0.1 with that new command without any issues. However, for the longest time this is what I've been using:
flashrom -p internal -w apuX_v4.14.0.2.rom
What is the difference?
