Intel NUC (4x4 motherboard)

jasonlitka

@Jason:

@Fevan:

I still feel for overall reliability if you got a pfsense box running 24/7 a xeon/server base pc will be better with its ECC server ram and an SSD and intel nics to boot and in some ways you kinda loose power efficiency but gain reliability.

Sure, until you add so many NICs and CPU cores that you start hitting bugs in the igb driver and your system panics. :)

Does this really happen with pfsense ?

I had no idea… was considering to order off a nice 4way quad nic card and perhaps a xeon server !

Are you suggesting a dual core and less nics like 2 are more reliable then ?

Yes, I just posted about this last week.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,69486.0.html

A quad-core Xeon + a quad-port NIC is probably fine out of the box. An 8-core , or a quad with 8 NICs? Maybe not. A quad with a dozen NICs, well, personal experience… The issues can be overcome, you'll just need to enter the BIOS and set your system to run on a single core until you've made the necessary changes.

Fevan

thanks good to hear !

crashnburn

Any use any of this hardware for expanding your port capabilities? Considering using a Tiny Box or Laptop with single port.