Atom C2758 + QAT Intel 8920 Card?
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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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'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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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
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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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@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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@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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Well pfSense has close to the same hardware compatibility list as FreeBSD, so currently that's:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.3R/hardware/#supportThe 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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@stephenw10 Thank you for your time and your team for the product. Fantastic.
