Watchguard Firebox M400/M500
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Stephen do we know if this will support Xeon E3-12XX v3 chips? Looking at Lanners literature it seems to only show i series but with a c226 chipset I’d imagine it would but you never know.
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No idea, sorry. I don't have such things to play with.
It wouldn't surprise me though. The BIOS appears to have this microcode:
I can't easily see what CPUs that might suggest...Steve
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Well got my m400 in finally. Also received an i3-4370 to go with it. It already has pfSense on it but I believe it’s attached to a CF card rather than a ssd. I’ll need to swap the cpu and reinstall to a spare ssd and I’ll be set for the eventual 2.5 release.
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CPU has been switched and system powers up. Got it attached to my network currently to test system out. Will try to get SSD installed and pfsense moved over from CF card in the next day or so.
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Has anyone noticed if the cpu utilization graph works? Mine is sitting at 0%.
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Which graph exactly are you referring to? The one in System > Monitoring?
The CPU util value there is swamped by the processes number. You need to disable the processes line to see it.
What pfSense version are you running?
Steve
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@stephenw10
2.4.3-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)
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The CPU usage bar indicator works fine here.
Steve
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Wonder if it’s bc I’m not using any features other than default routing. Should hopefully have it moved over to ssd tomorrow and I’ll transfer previous settings then.
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Well if you have the 4370 in there, 2 cores 4 threads @ 3.8GHz, and you're not moving much traffic it might not show much use I guess. Especially if you don't have speedstep enabled so it's running at full speed all the time.
I assume the load averages still show?Steve
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Well it looks like I’m running into the same problem above about uefi. If I put installer onto cf it boots fine. If I put the installer on ssd with an external enclosure and Rufus and boot from there I get a kernel error. I get same error once I get pfSense installed on ssd from cf and it tries to boot.
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Can we see the exact error you're getting?
Did you try installing as ZFS and selecting the UEFI or UEFI+BIOS partition scheme?
Steve
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I did. Let me try to get it booted back up and I will get an image up.
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well weirdly enough I put a different sata cable in with the ssd this morning and did a reinstall and it booted up just fine. I'm not sure if this cable will allow the lid to close as its a straight in plug and not a 90 degree elbow.
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Ah. Yeah bad SATA connection can be really weird. You'd assume it would either work or not but....
Steve
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Especially since that same cable was put back into my xtm5 so that i could have an internet connection and it worked just fine....live and learn.
Does WGXepc64 work on this box? I know its petty but I would like the Arm/Disarm light to turn green once pfsense has booted fully.
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It does.
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Hi all. Box works fine, with the 4370T in, it keeps the temp around 28 degrees.
I bought an HDD caddy for a few euro, https://www.ebay.de/itm/2Slot-2-5-to-3-5-HDD-Bay-Tray-Mount-Adapter-Caddy-HDD-Bracket-Holder/372255157574?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Just need to drill 2 holes to correctly mount it in the existing holes in the m400/m500 and saw off 1 part of the caddy(fits 2 ssd 2.5", and only on 1 side the extender to 3.5" needs to be sawed away).
It fits nicely just behind the psu. -
Please take photos and notes of the fitting process and end result. Sounds like something I need to tackle for a “finished look.”
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I recently found my m400 has issues doing reboots. It seems to hang at the end of the shutdown and never actually restarts. It can perform a halt correctly just not a reboot. Anyone else have this issue?
