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Let's go from big to small. This stuff is direct-wired to 12V DC from 150AH tubular batteries, which are charged exclusively by solar:
Alix 2D13 pfSense (12V)
Cisco SF100D-05 100Mbps switch (12V)
Fit-PC3 running Windows Server 2008R2 (12V)
ISP wireless device (not shown) (24V DC POE feed from across 2 batteries)
QNAS (in another room) (12V DC)
and we plan to put a TP-Link TL-MR-3420 (also 12V) in place of the Cisco switch so we get GB from Fit-PC3 to QNAS, and get WiFi, all on 24/7 solar powered 12/24V DC.
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Good stuff Phil. :)
I think I may have asked you this before and then forgotten, I can't remember! Are these powered directly from the batteries (~11-14V) or some regulated 12V source? Also do you have have some fancy charging/conditioning device between the panels and the batteries? I'm always interested in peoples solar power experiences.Steve
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Panels, batteries and DC out are all connected to a charge controller. But the DC out is not particularly regulated, so the devices have to copy with 11-14V (at the most 10-15V), which they do. I will take some charge controller pics on Monday and also see if I can get some actual running DC power consumption numbers (watts) for each device. (The engineering guy putting together our "standard" office solar installation package has the necessary measurement gear)
Edit, added:
DC power consumption @ 13.8V from solar/battery system:
Fit-PC3 roughly idling - 0.9A = 12.4W, running hard - 1.5A = 20.7W
Alix 2D13 - 0.3A = 4.1W (hmmm, a little low to believe?)
Cisco SF100D-05 5-port 100Mbps switch - 0.15A = 2W
QNAS TS-212 - idling 0.7A = 9.7W - disks working 1.0A = 13.8W - in standby waiting for scheduled wake <0.1A = <1W -
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Here's my new one… running on ESXi 5.5 ... Supermicro/Rangeley SOC :)
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Messy I know, but here it is. My first OpenSource box outside of messing with Linux back around '97
This is a Haswell i5-4570 Quad core 3.2ghz (VT-X, VT-D, AES, RND, TSX-NI, No HT), with 8GB of 2x4GB G.Skill 8-8-8-24 1600 DDR3, 2x Samsung 120gb 840 EVOs, and an Intel i350-T2. The switch is an HP v1810-24G, which is a L2 managed switch.
Currently, the green cable is WAN side for the box and red is the LAN, but I will be changing WAN to yellow and LAN to green. The white cable is from my old router which is a Netgear 3700 acting as a wireless AP with no DHCP, grey is my computer, which has the management VLAN tagged to my port and the empty port below is an untagged management VLAN. All other ports to the left are untagged "LAN" VLAN. Blue is the wife's comp.
No conf file tweaks or anything. A fairly standard install plus the Unbound package.
I was able to run some very simple benchmarks where my wife's computer was on one side of the firewall and mine was on the other. I was using PSPing which is like iperf. I had 4 instances running, 2 sending and 2 receiving. I actually get the same throughput directly over the switch as I do through PFSense, about 1.3gb/s total. My throughput limitation seems to be the cheaper Intel NICs on mine and my wife's comps.
System load during the above benchmark. These are the worst numbers.
When using hrping, which is similar to the Unix ping and uses the Windows media timer, I get the exact same average ping and exact same std-dev through PFSense as I do directly on the switch.
I am not sure how it will stand up to lots of connections. If I had a way to simulating several thousand UDP+TCP connection, running as fast as they could, in Windows without paying for software, that would be nice. Unfortunately it seems the only good free tools exist for Posix OS's.
One issue that I did have while installing PFSense is some bug that causes the install to hang at 36%. The work around was to unplug my keyboard before it got to 36%, which is a feat to do so on a quick install with a 3.2ghz CPU and SSD. Because I could not get this to work with the GEOM setup, I am stuck with using one HD for now. I plan on giving it another shot once 2.2 comes outs. Hope root on ZFS is supported.
P.S. The candy box in front of the computer is to block an insanely bright blue LED. If you're back on the couch, it is quite annoying.
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Havent any pictures….but currently testing hardware thats capable of pushing real traffic....
Fastest internet seen so far in Denmark!
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The line graph shows 100Gbps, but the numerical display says otherwise. Is pfSense not capable of displaying numerical values over 1Gbps? I would love to have such problems ;)
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I think it shows 1.00Gbps but the . is hidden by the font/graph.
Steve
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Numerical graph shows what is presently taking place. Not peak as graph shows. Picture seems to be taken after the test.
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Hmm, you could be right there. In which case….waaa :o
More details needed.Steve
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Correct!
Numerical graph shows what is presently taking place. Not peak as graph shows. Picture seems to be taken after the test.
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Then what are you using to pass like ~90Gbps?
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Its in development. ;) Nothing fixed yet.
Currently running in a VM with 8x10Gbe ports attached to the physical host and teamed.
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Hello everyone, nothing special here just my home lab.
2x pfSense Boxes (Black, smaller; 3.4GhzP4, 2GigRAM, 16GigCF, 2x Intel GBit Ether ea.)
1x Dell 390 - ESXi 5.5 (Silver, QuadXeon2.66, 8GigRAM, 64GigSSD, 1x 2TB7200RPM, 5x GBit Ether) Running OSSIM3, Cent6, and a Log Database
1x Main Machine (AMD 8150-8Core, 32GigRAM, 2x 256GigSSD, 2x 2TB7200RPM) Running Server2012 and VMWares (~3-5 VMs)
1x Gateway Laptop (Dualcore 2.6, 4GigRAM, 320Gig7200RPM) Used as vSphere and FW/OSSIM/Network managment machineIm not in IT (obviously, my setups not that cool), Im just a second year engineering student with a love for tinkering and networking security.
Thanks to the pfTeam for a great product. Keep up the good work!
P.S. - There needs to be a "Donate Beer" button on the website, I dont want to buy a Gold Subscription but I do want to send the guys a few bucks for their favorite beverages. Any suggestions?
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Nice. :)
Beats the second hand IBM 386 I had when I was at uni. (I think I later upgraded to blazing fast Cyrix 233! :P)The old website used to have a Paypal link for donating directly small amounts. Also I'm sure there was a list of the Amazon wishlists of various key people. I can't find it now but I always thought that would be a nice way of donating. Unexpected gifts are always good.
Steve
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@Sickcero:
P.S. - There needs to be a "Donate Beer" button on the website, I dont want to buy a Gold Subscription but I do want to send the guys a few bucks for their favorite beverages. Any suggestions?
Buy a sticker.
http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1156
https://store.pfsense.org/
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@Sickcero:
Hello everyone, nothing special here just my home lab.
2x pfSense Boxes (Black, smaller; 3.4GhzP4, 2GigRAM, 16GigCF, 2x Intel GBit Ether ea.)
P.S. - There needs to be a "Donate Beer" button on the website, I dont want to buy a Gold Subscription but I do want to send the guys a few bucks for their favorite beverages. Any suggestions?
If I said, "buy pfSense Gold", would you hate me?
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Tough to hate you just for that Jim. ;)
However I know I didn't have $100 to spare when I was a student. That would have fed me for weeks, including beer! Perhaps a Silver subscription might be in order? I don't envy you deciding what that might entail though.Steve
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Here is my humble low power set-up (2.1.2-RELEASE (amd64)):
Mini-box M300-LCD
SuperMicro X10SBA-L
Celeron J1900 4c @ 2.0Ghz
8GB DDR3L
4 NIC: 2 on-board 210AT NIC, 2 on Intel PRO 1000/PT Server Adapter (PCI-E Riser)
64GB Crucial M4 SSD
Power by DC: LITEON 12V 4.16A Power Brick.
