Silent and low noise?

hayer

Hi.

I currently have a Jetway board with 1 network plug and a Cisco SMB2008 with VLANs working. The problem is their noise and the WAF is very low :-
So what I'm looking for; a total passive cooled solution that will also perform well over VPN.

I've been looking at a couple of the "Intel Celeron J1900 Processor Onboard"-motherboards but they all seem to use Realtek chips which we all love to hate. I've also been looking at a couple of NUCs but I feel like it is a waste of money; I already have a nice case, RAM, a PSU, and a harddrive.

So, any suggestions?

Keljian

I've noticed a few people recommending this euler case:
http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&type=Chassis&type_sub=Mini+ITX&model=AK-ITX05-BK

and specifying 35w cpus (see the list on the specifications page) - Maybe this could work for you

stephenw10

Does your existing case take mini-ITX boards?
What is your WAN bandwidth? What VPN performance do you need? Are you running Squid/Snort or anything else CPU heavy?

There are a few boards out there with J1900 CPU and Intel NICs (usually i210/217) notably from Supermicro but they're not cheap.

Steve

kenmasterson

@hayer:

Hi.

I currently have a Jetway board with 1 network plug and a Cisco SMB2008 with VLANs working. The problem is their noise and the WAF is very low :-
So what I'm looking for; a total passive cooled solution that will also perform well over VPN.

I've been looking at a couple of the "Intel Celeron J1900 Processor Onboard"-motherboards but they all seem to use Realtek chips which we all love to hate. I've also been looking at a couple of NUCs but I feel like it is a waste of money; I already have a nice case, RAM, a PSU, and a harddrive.

So, any suggestions?

Don't build a J1900-based system yet; there is a bug that blocks booting: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/3678

There are patches out there, but it hasn't made its way into pfSense.

stephenw10

Ah, thanks for the heads up. :)
What about those who did get it installed and booting on the Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V? For example:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=73518.msg418094#msg418094

Is this a known FreeBSD issue if patches are availlable?
Edit: I see the link in your redmine report now. ::)

Steve