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    Atom C2758 + QAT Intel 8920 Card?

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      chanabra
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      Hello,

      I got ahold of a very cheap A1SRI-C2758 recently, and it was a big upgrade from my previous pfsense box, I was able to send it to to supermicro and get it fixed for the C2000 whatever crap, I just got it back , living only a few hours south it was pretty quick service.

      I notice this board 1. has intel quick assist built in - what does this do roughly ? I see that if I run pfsense baremetal it says Intel QAT Enabled, but if I proxmox it does not show and this board doesnt support sr-iovs so I cannot passthrough the QAT coprocessor to the vm..

      Intel 8920 can be had relatively cheap , this board also supprots PCIE 2.0 X 8 --> X4 X4 bifurcation and I happen to have a x4 x4 bifurcation card, I was thinking about putting in a .... there exists dual sfp+ 2.0 x 4 ? no ? or am I limited to one? , also just Intel 8920 says it allows sr-iovs allowing to be passed through directly to the vm .. if this works how I think this will be a very nice combo, maybe even screw the bifurcation and dedicate the measly pcie 2.0 x 8 to the 8920 card.

      thoughts?

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        'Cave Creek' devices are not supported by any FreeBSD driver, so no that won't work in pfSense.
        I'd love it if it did since I have a few of those cards 😉

        Intel seems to want to forget they made that device, none of their own drivers support it any longer that I can see.

        Steve

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          A Former User
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          @chanabra

          I would prefer to install it bare metal and if it is for home
          usage I would go with pfSense+ (Plus) 22.05. On top 10 Gbe
          and you will be more happy with it.

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            chanabra
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            Thanks for the responses fellers.

            That is unfortunate. I already bought 32gb ram too thinking I would virtualized. Got it incredibly cheap as a seller had an issue and refunded me a significant amount and it was simply delayed.

            May I ask you reasoning behind running it bare meta specifically?

            & Looks like I am grabbing a Dual SFP+ card.

            Yall have any idea why bare metal c2758 says "QAT Crypto: Yes" ?

            And while I have your attentions would this be a good PFSense box goal if use cases are ignored and the fact that I am simply looking to explore QAT as well as possibly adding on a QAT card simultanenously ?: X11SDV-8C-TLN2F

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @chanabra
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              @chanabra said in Atom C2758 + QAT Intel 8920 Card?:

              Yall have any idea why bare metal c2758 says "QAT Crypto: Yes" ?

              Because the C2000 CPU contains a QAT crypto device that is supported by our driver in pfSense Plus.

              That Skylake-D Xeon board would likely make a good target either bare metal or as a VM host.

              Steve

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                chanabra @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10 You guys are excellent, is there a list of other cpus/combos that you support as well while I enjoy this support :)

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Well pfSense has close to the same hardware compatibility list as FreeBSD, so currently that's:
                  https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.3R/hardware/#support

                  The next version will be built on FreeBSD main (14) which hasn't yet been released so at least what is in 13.1:
                  https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/hardware/#support
                  Plus some additional stuff that has only just become supported.

                  In general though it will run on most x86-64 platforms. Something with Intel NICs is preferable.

                  Steve

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                    chanabra @stephenw10
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                    @stephenw10 Thank you for your time and your team for the product. Fantastic.

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