After bringing out the DPE 750 to the colo, I recycled the secondary pfSense box (Atom 330, 2 GByte RAM, dmesg below) as a domestic firewall (currently 6/100 MBit/s; DOCSIS 3.0) and noticed an immediate improvement over my old ALIX.
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: Thu Nov 4 01:20:42 EDT 2010 sullr...@freebsd_8.0_pfsense_2.0-snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8 i386 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz (1600.06-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x106c2 Family = 6 Model = 1c Stepping = 2 Features=0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x40e31d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE> AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB) avail memory = 2078072832 (1981 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <071009 APIC1101> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 HTT threads cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 3 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 4 ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard wlan: mac acl policy registered kbd1 at kbdmux0 cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard padlock0: No ACE support. acpi0: <NEC > on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of fee00000, 1000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 100000, 7f700000 (3) failed 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 cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 cpu3: <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> irq 16 at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 igb0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection version - 2.0.4> port 0xcc00-0xcc1f mem 0xfe9e0000-0xfe9fffff,0xfe400000-0xfe7fffff,0xfe9dc000-0xfe9dffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 igb0: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb0: [ITHREAD] igb0: [ITHREAD] igb0: [ITHREAD] igb0: [ITHREAD] igb0: [ITHREAD] igb1: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection version - 2.0.4> port 0xc880-0xc89f mem 0xfe9a0000-0xfe9bffff,0xfdc00000-0xfdffffff,0xfe9d8000-0xfe9dbfff irq 17 at device 0.1 on pci1 igb1: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors igb1: [ITHREAD] igb1: [ITHREAD] igb1: [ITHREAD] igb1: [ITHREAD] igb1: [ITHREAD] vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xbc00-0xbc07 mem 0xfd780000-0xfd7fffff,0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0xfd740000-0xfd77ffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: <Intel 82945G (945G GMCH) SVGA controller> on vgapci0 agp0: detected 7932k stolen memory agp0: aperture size is 256M pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.0 on pci0 pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2 pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 16 at device 28.4 on pci0 pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3 re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xfeaff000-0xfeafffff,0xfcef0000-0xfcefffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 re0: Using 1 MSI messages re0: Chip rev. 0x3c000000 re0: MAC rev. 0x00400000 miibus0: <MII bus> on re0 rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0 rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto re0: [FILTER] pcib4: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 17 at device 28.5 on pci0 pci4: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib4 re1: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfebff000-0xfebfffff,0xfcff0000-0xfcffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci4 re1: Using 1 MSI messages re1: Chip rev. 0x3c000000 re1: MAC rev. 0x00400000 miibus1: <MII bus> on re1 rgephy1: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus1 rgephy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto re1: [FILTER] uhci0: <Intel 82801G (ICH7) USB controller USB-A> port 0xb880-0xb89f irq 23 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [ITHREAD] uhci0: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus0: <Intel 82801G (ICH7) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0 uhci1: <Intel 82801G (ICH7) USB controller USB-B> port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [ITHREAD] uhci1: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus1: <Intel 82801G (ICH7) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1 uhci2: <Intel 82801G (ICH7) USB controller USB-C> port 0xb480-0xb49f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [ITHREAD] uhci2: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus2: <Intel 82801G (ICH7) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2 uhci3: <Intel 82801G (ICH7) USB controller USB-D> port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 16 at device 29.3 on pci0 uhci3: [ITHREAD] uhci3: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus3: <Intel 82801G (ICH7) USB controller USB-D> on uhci3 ehci0: <Intel 82801GB/R (ICH7) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfd73bc00-0xfd73bfff irq 23 at device 29.7 on pci0 ehci0: [ITHREAD] usbus4: EHCI version 1.0 usbus4: <Intel 82801GB/R (ICH7) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0 pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel ICH7 UDMA100 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata0: [ITHREAD] atapci1: <Intel ICH7 SATA300 controller> port 0xb080-0xb087,0xb000-0xb003,0xac00-0xac07,0xa880-0xa883,0xa800-0xa80f mem 0xfd73b800-0xfd73bbff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0 atapci1: [ITHREAD] atapci1: AHCI called from vendor specific driver atapci1: AHCI v1.10 controller with 4 3Gbps ports, PM not supported ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1 ata2: [ITHREAD] ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1 ata3: [ITHREAD] ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci1 ata4: [ITHREAD] ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci1 ata5: [ITHREAD] pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached) acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0 uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: [FILTER] uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 uart1: [FILTER] pmtimer0 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 p4tcc2: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu2 p4tcc3: <CPU Frequency Thermal Control> on cpu3 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: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 usbus3: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 usbus4: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0 ata0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable ad0: 1911MB <TRANSCEND 20071207> at ata0-master UDMA33 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 UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus2 ugen3.1: <Intel> at usbus3 uhub3: <Intel UHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus3 ugen4.1: <Intel> at usbus4 uhub4: <Intel EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus4 ad4: 7627MB <TS8GSSD25S S V090331> at ata2-master UDMA100 SATA 3Gb/s SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched! SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched! Root mount waiting for: usbus4 usbus3 usbus2 usbus1 usbus0 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered Root mount waiting for: usbus4 Root mount waiting for: usbus4 Root mount waiting for: usbus4 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a ugen0.2: <American Power Conversion> at usbus0 pflog0: promiscuous mode enabled -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org