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    Installation on Intel D2500CC (atom with dual NIC board)

    Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      dquant
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      Today I installed the D2500CCE. I selected the Jetway JC110-B case which allows for adding two PCI cards, and has two internal fans. It is not very noisy at this moment. The case comes with a wall mount which is very useful as well. The Intel board fits without moving the fans's (which I read somewhere else). The BIOS has a setting for "always on"  on power failure which is useful in my case because the firewall will be installed quite remote. I burned "pfSense-memstick-2.0.2-RELEASE-i386-20121207-1630.img" on a memory stick and installed pfsense from the stick on a harddrive. The display output was a little corrupted but good enough for a "simple" installation (I could read most of the words). The monitor isn't needed after the install, so it is good enough to me.

      To answer the question above:

      • board: Intel D2500CCE
      • Memory: Transcend SO-DIMM DDR3 1333 2Gb

      Later on I installed Squid proxy. The firewall will be used by a maximum of 75 users and a bandwidth of 60Mbit.

      Dirk.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Solid information. Nice first post!  ;)

        Steve

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          stuck
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          besides the first gentleman who posted his idle consumption @ ~20watts
          has anyone else checked their power consumption at idle? 
          I thought I read somewhere that these atom 2500's were supposed to idle at <10 watts?

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            Paul47
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            My D2500CC idles at 15W using a "Kill-a-watt". I have it running the 64-bit 2.1Beta snapshot. I think the 32-bit beta also worked. Anything else was a problem for me, IIRC. I am using a Picopsu-120 with a 10A (large) power brick, which might account for some of that. A PicoPSU-80 would probably make more sense. I'm using a flash drive, not a hard drive.

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              tpf
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              I'm using pfS 2.1 x64 Snapshots full-install@hdd with two Intel D2500CCE board since eight months without any problems, except the serial-console-bug. Services are HAVP, Squid / Dansguardian and OpenVPN on a 50/2,5 cable. VLAN on the Intel NICs works, too.

              Without cooling the Atom heats to 60 degree celsius. Power consumption with HDD and none -80+ PSU ~30W.

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              10 years pfSense! 2006 - 2016

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                pvoigt
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                @tpf:

                I'm using pfS 2.1 x64 Snapshots full-install@hdd with two Intel D2500CCE board since eight months without any problems, except the serial-console-bug. Services are HAVP, Squid / Dansguardian and OpenVPN on a 50/2,5 cable. VLAN on the Intel NICs works, too.

                Without cooling the Atom heats to 60 degree celsius. Power consumption with HDD and none -80+ PSU ~30W.

                Nice to hear, that this nice board is handling VLANs correctly - despite some reported problems elsewhere. The Intel is using the same NIC as my board, namely the Intel 82574L and I can confirm not having any VLAN issues.

                Your measured power consumption seems very realistic according to my experiences with an Atom D525 on a Jetway NF99FL-525. I've measured the power consumption with a power meter during several hours and found ~33 W with one CF, WiFi, one case fan and a standard ATX PSU.

                Hoping, for a solution of the serial console bug in the near future as it is the same with my board (pfSense 2.0.1 NanoBSD VGA AMD64) :)

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                  n1ko
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                  I got one of these recently too. Running vlans and no troubles (2.1).

                  The traffic output seems to be quite low though, running iperf with single nic and vlans only gets me around ~380Mbps because the cpu gets capped by the interrupts.

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                    maverick_slo
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                    Hi guys!

                    I just got this MB and waiting for my job to end :)
                    Then install fresh pfSense on it.

                    Are there any video troubles with it or they all got fixed?

                    Regards,
                    M

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                      maverick_slo
                      last edited by

                      Installed and working fine :)

                      One thing worries me in dmesg:

                      
kernel: RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery></clock_battery>

                      I replaced battery, unplugged, CMOS is remembered so batt works 100%.
                      Bug?

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                        maverick_slo
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                        Wow, I`m quite impressed, traffic between 2 onboard interfaces:

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                          Nearly 700Mbps, that I'd quite impressive for an Atom. Did you make any tweaks? Is that just firewalling?

                          Steve

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                            maverick_slo
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                            Just firewalling, default install, Intel NICs everywhere and powerD in adaptive mode.

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                              kejianshi
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                              I've lost track of what you are using for HDD, but…

                              I'd put it on a SATA HDD or good SSD and be done with it.  They can both be had for cheap.
                              I find on ebay that people are dumping used SLC SSDs primarily because 120MB/s is just not fast enough for them or they want enormous SSDs.  Since those 2009ish Intel and Samsung SLC SSDs are nearly indestructable, and you don't need massive SATA3 speed or enormous storage, I'd grab one of those.

                              I recently replaced my WD HDD in my home pfsense with a 64GB Samsung SSD and its.....  Exactly the same as before.
                              Thats not very exciting, I know, but if it always stays same, and doesn't break I'll be happy.

                              Its a 64GB SSD and I have it set to use about 30GB for squid cache, so its "over-provisioned" for my use.

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                                maverick_slo
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                                Hey!

                                I use calssic :) HDD Seagate 500GB constallation series…
                                Had one laying around and collecting dust, so I plugged it in :)

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                                  kejianshi
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                                  Nothing wrong with that…

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                                    tjabas
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                                    im also thinking of ordering a minix, i found this one: http://www.geekbuying.com/item/MINIX-MINI-HD-PC-Barebone-System-Intel-D2550-CPU-HDMI-VGA-No-memory-No-hard-disk-Us-Plug-317041.html

                                    would this work fine?

                                    or can i get a better and cheaper anywhere else?

                                    im going to install strong vpn, openvpn, do you Think that i can get a good speed out of this box when using openvpn on a 100mb line?
                                    that is very important for me that i get a good speed through the openvpn Connection, or do i need a better cpu?

                                    and where can i buy a cheap harddrive/memorycard and ram memory for this minix?

                                    thank you

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                                      tjabas
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                                      …and is it possible to add a wireless card in the minix? if so, witch one is the best?

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                                      • stephenw10S
                                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                                        You will probably see ~60Mbps openvpn throughput, less if you're doing other stuff with it.

                                        Atheros wifi cards are best supported but even then older cards are more likely to work. There is no support for 802.11n so you won't see more than 54Mbps. Many people would recommend an external access point.

                                        Steve

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                                          tjabas
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                                          ok, thank you for your answer, i guess that i have to make an order then:)
                                          but i guess if i get a minix or other with a faster cpu, i will get even faster troughput whn using openvpn?
                                          its too bad that pfsense cant handle pptp Connection, the Connection speed would be better than with openvpn.

                                          where can i buy this minix as cheap as possible?

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                                          • stephenw10S
                                            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                            last edited by

                                            Yes the throughput is limited by the CPU encrypt/decrypt speed.

                                            pfSense can do PPTP but you shouldn't use it due to it's weak encryption:
                                            https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PPTP_VPN

                                            Steve

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