On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:14:47AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:53:19PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > It would probably still beat my 4x NIC 1.6 GHz dual-core Atoms
> > > (about Pentium 3 level of performance)
> >
> > You'd be surprised - a dual core Atom is considerably faster than a P3
> > at pushing packets, depending on NICs and the specific board. The
> > better embedded firewall boards with Atoms can push around 500 Mbps. A
> > PE750 would be faster, though takes ~8-9 times as much power.
>
> As I managed to scrounge 4 GByte ECC DDR RAM, a dual-port Intel server
> NIC (PCI-X) and had a spare Crucial SSD (instead of a dead 80 GByte
> Maxtor that came with the machine orignally) I decided to give it a spin. Just
> installed 1.2.3 and upgraded to latest 2.0 beta snapshot.
>
> Wow, in comparison to my Atoms the thing feels like a speed demon.
> Boots like demented, the interface is really snappy, including
> RRD graphs, which has always been a bit lame -- maybe it's the
> switch to 2.0 from 1.3, though.
>
> I think I'm sold on it as my primary firewall, despite the hardware
> being ~5 years old. I will, however, keep an Atom box as the second
> node in a carp+pfsync failover.
>
> Did I already mention that I really, really like pfSense? ;)
Just in case somebody has the same hardware, here's a dmesg dump
Notice I had to put
# cat /boot/loader.conf
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1
to get of legal warnings in the dmesg output.
Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 #1: Tue Oct 26 15:11:49 EDT 2010
sullr...@freebsd_8.0_pfsense_2.0-snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense.8
i386
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2800.11-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf34 Family = f Model = 3 Stepping = 4
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT
,TM,PBE>
Features2=0x441d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,CNXT-ID,xTPR>
TSC: P-state invariant
real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
avail memory = 4064215040 (3875 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL PE750 >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 1 core(s) x 2 HTT threads
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 1
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2
ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 3
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 24-47 on motherboard
wlan: mac acl policy registered
kbd1 at kbdmux0
cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
padlock0: No ACE support.
acpi0: <DELL PE750> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 3.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Connection 1.0.2> port 0xece0-0xecff mem
0xfe3e0000-0xfe3fffff irq 18 at device 1.0 on pci1
em0: [FILTER]
pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 28.0 on pci0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
em1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Connection 1.0.2> port 0xdcc0-0xdcff mem
0xfe1e0000-0xfe1fffff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci2
em1: [FILTER]
em2: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Connection 1.0.2> port 0xdc80-0xdcbf mem
0xfe1c0000-0xfe1dffff irq 25 at device 1.1 on pci2
em2: [FILTER]
uhci0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xbce0-0xbcff irq 16 at device 29.0
on pci0
uhci0: [ITHREAD]
uhci0: LegSup = 0x2f00
usbus0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci0
uhci1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0xbcc0-0xbcdf irq 19 at device 29.1
on pci0
uhci1: [ITHREAD]
uhci1: LegSup = 0x2f00
usbus1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci1
pci0: <base peripheral> at device 29.4 (no driver attached)
ehci0: <Intel 6300ESB USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfe500000-0xfe5003ff irq 23 at
device 29.7 on pci0
ehci0: [ITHREAD]
usbus2: EHCI version 1.0
usbus2: <Intel 6300ESB USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
em3: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Connection 1.0.2> port 0xccc0-0xccff mem
0xfdee0000-0xfdefffff irq 21 at device 2.0 on pci3
em3: [FILTER]
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem
0xfc000000-0xfcffffff,0xfdedf000-0xfdedffff at device 14.0 on pci3
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel 6300ESB SATA150 controller> port
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfea0-0xfeaf at device 31.2 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x7f irq 8 on acpi0
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FILTER]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
uart0: [FILTER]
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc8fff,0xc9000-0xc9fff,0xec000-0xeffff pnpid ORM0000
on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
ppc0: parallel port not found.
p4tcc0: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu0
p4tcc1: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu1
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus1: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus2: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
ugen0.1: <Intel> at usbus0
uhub0: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
ugen1.1: <Intel> at usbus1
uhub1: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
ugen2.1: <Intel> at usbus2
uhub2: <Intel EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus2
acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SN-124/N103> at ata0-master UDMA33 SATA
ad2: 61053MB <C300 CTFDDAC064MAG 0002> at ata1-master UDMA100 SATA
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
Root mount waiting for: usbus2
uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad2s1a
pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled
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