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    Pfsense on VIA C7 EPIA M700-10E

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      romainp last edited by

      Hi guys,
      I hope that someone can give me some answers and good advices about some hardware related question:

      I'm a newbie with pfsense and with mini itx related hardware but I want to buy a small box equiped with a via C7 processor on a EPIA M700 10E motherboard.
      Specs are : http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/embedded/ProductDetail.jsp?motherboard_id=670

      I am pretty sure that PF will runs a this motherboard but:

      • I am planning to put a sata disk on it (2.5 inches), is the internal controller will run the sata disk as an ide one? (like an emulation mode). For what I see the sata/IDE controller is a VIA VX800 (http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/v-series/vx800/). Does not seems to appear in the HCL of Freebsd 7.0…
      • Are the NIC will work also?

      Thanks for all the information you will nicely share with me.
      Romain

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        wallabybob last edited by

        The datasheet lists the two gigabit NICs as VIA VT6130. The FreeBSD 7.2 hardware support at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/hardware.html doesn't list the VT6130. You'll probably be better off selecting another board if you want to use onboard NICs.If you search the forums for mini-ITX you'll probably some reports of mini-ITX boards with dual gigE NICs that have been demonstrated to work with pfSense.

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          kc8apf last edited by

          If you aren't tied to using mini-ITX, there are a few other systems you can use that are fully supported.  I've been using a Lanner FW7520 with great success.  Other have used the FabiaTech FX5620 or FX5621.  Depending on your exact bandwidth and processing needs, a Soekris Engineering system might be a good fit.

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