Can you please provide us with a link to this Atom board you are using?
I`m at the same point with Alix hardware, very good and reliable hardware, but we need more NICs and firepower in small factor boards. Seko ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Bagnall" <pfse...@lists.minotaur.cc> To: "pfSense support and discussion" <list@lists.pfsense.org> Sent: Friday, June 7, 2013 8:40:34 PM Subject: [pfSense] Best practice for SSD installs Greetings list, I've used pfSense embedded for many years on ALIX boards. However, given the difficulty of getting those boards with 4 NICs, or more than 256MB RAM, I've recently been exprimenting with an Atom-based motherboard instead. Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, the Atom board in question doesn't have a Compact Flash slot, so my usual approach of flashing the pfSense embedded image to a card isn't an option here. The board supports CFast (which is hideously expensive in the UK) and/or a standard 2.5" SATA device. Given a standard 2.5" 32GB SSD is considerably less expensive than even a 4GB CFast card, I suspect I'll be using SSDs for future installs. Which brings me to the question: the last time I performed a pfSense 'full' install (i.e. not embedded) was several years, and many versions ago. What's the best practice when using an SSD? Use the CD-based installer to do a 'full' install, or continue to use the embedded NanoBSD image? One other thing I thought I might try is using an USB flash device. I notice from the snapshots there's an image available for these devices, but I can't seem to find much by the way of documentation online about the benefits/pitfalls of this approach. As an aside, there are several options on the "Advanced" tab relating to NIC performance options: - Disable hardware checksum offload - Disable hardware TCP segmentation offload - Disable hardware large receive offload Has anyone done any tests / is there a list maintained anywhere with details of which NICs are "problematic" with these, and hence should be disabled? The motherboard I'm using is a mix of Intel and Realtek gigabit NICs (em and re respectively). Any suggestions gratefully received. Kind regards, Chris -- This email is made from 100% recycled electrons _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
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