Shuttle DS57U (Broadwell & Dual Intel NICs)
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Just wanted to say thanks to everyone on this thread.
I've been shopping for several weeks for something to replace an old power-hungry (~55 W) clunker and decided upon the new Shuttle DS57U (with 2x2 GB RAM, 60 GB SSD). I'm pleased with the initial quality, slim form factor, fanless design, and I echo everything hedsht has said, especially the ease of installation (v2.2.1).
I'd add one other con: the power button is a hair trigger.
This build is overkill for my simple home needs, but I look forward to using more of pfsense's features going forward.
@hedsht:
the shuttle has arrived and i'm happy with it.
lspci -lv (Ubuntu 14.04)
pciconf -lv (FreeBSD 10.1)Booting from USB works without any issues, even booting from SD Card works.
Minor con's so far:
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the NICs use two different drivers, one is igb0 (I211) and the other one em0 (I218LM)
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no status LEDs on NICs, might bother some people
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Wifi Card (RTL8188EE) is not working
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it isnt possible to disable the igpu (it will use 64mb of ram)
The case is made of metal which makes it quite hard to install external wifi antenna's, but i'll try to find a good spot, swap the wifi card and install two external antenna's.
I've set PowerD to adaptive and while downloading 100mbit the cpu idle's at around 500 MHz.
Power Usage: 11w (4 GB RAM & 64 GB SSD)
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I also have the DS57U and wanted to install pfsense as a virtual machine in ESXI. Have any of you guys tried this yet? The main problem I'm having is that ESXI 6 only shows the i218 adapter as being available. The i211 adapter is no where to be seen. I see it available as a passthrough device. I can't figure out why it won't appear as a 2nd physical nic?
VMware compatibility guide show both have drivers available in esxi 6, why won't the i211 not appear as a available adapter?:
I211 compatibility:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=37601&deviceCategory=io&details=1&releases=273&keyword=i211&deviceTypes=6&VID=8086&DID=1539&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc
I218-LM compatibility:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=37653&deviceCategory=io&details=1&keyword=i21&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc
Any ideas?
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even with aes-ni, those cpus can do gigabit wan and fast vpn without issue. they just have a higher load when doing a vpn without aes-ni.
with modern cpus, even the low end embedded models like the celeronj, aes-ni is or not is not an issue.
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a Celeron-j 1900 can do 500/500 without issue. everyone was getting that gigabyte board with dual wan for that reason.
the realtek nics seem to limit it to 700/700ish, but the cpu can do more.
basically it depends on how much you want to spend.
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I also have the DS57U and wanted to install pfsense as a virtual machine in ESXI. Have any of you guys tried this yet? The main problem I'm having is that ESXI 6 only shows the i218 adapter as being available. The i211 adapter is no where to be seen. I see it available as a passthrough device. I can't figure out why it won't appear as a 2nd physical nic?
VMware compatibility guide show both have drivers available in esxi 6, why won't the i211 not appear as a available adapter?:
I211 compatibility:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=37601&deviceCategory=io&details=1&releases=273&keyword=i211&deviceTypes=6&VID=8086&DID=1539&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc
I218-LM compatibility:
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=io&productid=37653&deviceCategory=io&details=1&keyword=i21&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc
Any ideas?
I installed ESXi 6.0 on my DS57U3. I had to create a customized ESXi-ISO with http://www.v-front.de/p/esxi-customizer-ps.html and installed the net-igb and sata-xahci driver package. See http://www.v-front.de/2015/08/a-fix-for-intel-i211-and-i350-adapters.html and http://www.v-front.de/2013/11/how-to-make-your-unsupported-sata-ahci.html
Besides I passed through the Realtek WLAN-card to a Debian 8 VM with a 4.2 Kernel and set this machine up as a WLAN-AP with hostapd - http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-linux-setting-wireless-access-point/
This also should work for a Shuttle DH170 imho.