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On 14/12/09 23:47, Jeppe Øland wrote: As for the PCIe wireless card: it's a MSI brand card, using a Ralink NIC. (MS-6894, Ralink chip: RTL8187SE) I guess thats a RealTek wireless card ... probably next to useless for pfSense or? realtek != ralink yup, that's a realtek since reading some comments in the linux kernel device driver for realtek ethernet chips, I know it's not just snobbery that keeps people away! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Paul Mansfield schreef: On 14/12/09 23:47, Jeppe Øland wrote: As for the PCIe wireless card: it's a MSI brand card, using a Ralink NIC. (MS-6894, Ralink chip: RTL8187SE) I guess thats a RealTek wireless card ... probably next to useless for pfSense or? realtek != ralink I've previously have had quite good success with Ralink wireless chips (ral) under FreeBSD. Even with the usb Ralink chips (ural). Regards, Seth - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On 15/12/09 14:35, Seth Mos wrote: Paul Mansfield schreef: On 14/12/09 23:47, Jeppe Øland wrote: As for the PCIe wireless card: it's a MSI brand card, using a Ralink NIC. (MS-6894, Ralink chip: RTL8187SE) I guess thats a RealTek wireless card ... probably next to useless for pfSense or? realtek != ralink I've previously have had quite good success with Ralink wireless chips (ral) under FreeBSD. Even with the usb Ralink chips (ural). yeah, ralink hardware has a pretty good community of driver developers - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On 13/12/09 05:07, Jeppe Øland wrote: Just stumbled over this: MSI Industrial WindBOXII http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9a25 Not cheap - but it's got everything in a nice pre-packaged box. nice! it has an Intel NIC. not sure what options there are for mini-PCIe cards with gigabit cat5e/cat6 adaptors? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Just stumbled over this: MSI Industrial WindBOXII http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9a25 Not cheap - but it's got everything in a nice pre-packaged box. nice! it has an Intel NIC. As for the PCIe wireless card: it's a MSI brand card, using a Ralink NIC. (MS-6894, Ralink chip: RTL8187SE) I guess thats a RealTek wireless card ... probably next to useless for pfSense or? Regards, -Jeppe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Just stumbled over this: MSI Industrial WindBOXII http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9a25 Not cheap - but it's got everything in a nice pre-packaged box. Regards, -Jeppe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Has anybody tried pfSense with a board like this? http://www.avalue.com.tw/products/ECM-945GSE.cfm those seem good :) jsut couldn't find anywhere to sell (thus no price tag). If you have any, I am getting a price directly from Avalue USA. The board is in production, and there is no minimum quantity to order. My guess would be a price in the $3-400 range ... I will write it as soon as I hear back from them. Directly from AValue, the price is $265. This price probably does not include RAM, PSU or case. Regards, -Jeppe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On 27/10/09 15:42, Jeppe Øland wrote: Has anybody tried pfSense with a board like this? http://www.avalue.com.tw/products/ECM-945GSE.cfm Dual Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit Ehternet hmmm. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On 15/10/09 18:25, Ryan wrote: Does anyone make an atom board with intel onboard. I'd rather intel if i had my choice. I have seen a couple of flexatx atom boards that look real promising, but they don't have intel nics. I built a box with a jetway atom board and triple intel gigE daughter board - search the mail archives - pfSense booted fine and detected the onboard realtek as re0 and the intels as em0 to em2. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:35:07PM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote: I built a box with a jetway atom board and triple intel gigE daughter board - search the mail archives - pfSense booted fine and detected the onboard realtek as re0 and the intels as em0 to em2. Are you happy with it so far? Throughput benchmarks? -- 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: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On 16/10/09 16:41, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:35:07PM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote: I built a box with a jetway atom board and triple intel gigE daughter board - search the mail archives - pfSense booted fine and detected the onboard realtek as re0 and the intels as em0 to em2. Are you happy with it so far? Throughput benchmarks? erm, well, actually, I am using it as a multi-homed linux machine, so I can't say, but I do get very good network throughput. it's been 100% stable since I fired it up and performance has been pretty good - better than the Athlon Barton XP2500 (underclocked to an XP1500 for power saving) it replaced. I wasn't able to use the efficient power supply that I bought for the project, it's using quite an old one (maybe 50% efficient?) that fits that microatx case... the APC UPS tells me it's eating about 78kVA, so with a decent PSU I'd guess it'd be about 50W. the old Athlon Barton XP2500 was eating about 175kVA. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On 16/10/09 17:27, Curtis Maurand wrote: Check this one out. It should work just fine. Very inexpensive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262 pretty good box at the price; I guess it would be a bit noisy for a home or office environment, 1U server fans tend to be pretty whiny! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Curtis Maurand wrote: Check this one out. It should work just fine. Very inexpensive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262 I mentioned that one elsewhere in the thread. Three of them just arrived in my office and I'm getting ready to test them out. :-) First cool observation, they actually have an internal USB port. Not just pins, but a real port. There are some really tiny USB flash drives that could be used to run these with (cheap) solid state media. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:27:47PM -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: Check this one out. It should work just fine. Very inexpensive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262 What kind of internal slot and riser is this? PCI, I presume? -- 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: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Paul Mansfield wrote: On 16/10/09 17:27, Curtis Maurand wrote: Check this one out. It should work just fine. Very inexpensive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262 pretty good box at the price; I guess it would be a bit noisy for a home or office environment, 1U server fans tend to be pretty whiny! There are only two fans, one on the motherboard, and one in the PSU. I haven't powered it up yet to check noise levels. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Newegg says the board only has a PCI-Ex8 slot. I'm not sure which board that would be, as all the Atom boards I've seen are PCI-only. Re: Noise - In my experience, Atom servers can run without chassis fans - they only need the CPU fan and the PSU fan. Nice find. I love the Atom platform. Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Nathan Eisenberg wrote: Newegg says the board only has a PCI-Ex8 slot. I'm not sure which board that would be, as all the Atom boards I've seen are PCI-only. It has 2 PCI-E x8 and a PCI, but it looks like only the PCI-E x8 would be usable with the riser. Here's a pic I took of the mainboard http://twitpic.com/lr2tc Re: Noise - In my experience, Atom servers can run without chassis fans - they only need the CPU fan and the PSU fan. I can barely hear the thing run, with the fans on and the case open. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:27:47PM -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: Check this one out. It should work just fine. Very inexpensive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262 I have actually looked at this. We use supermicro for some of our servers and they make a great product. This has 2 onboard nics, but they are both realtek. I guess I am too picky. Realtek seems ok in a regular desktop pc, but for a router, i would like an intel or a broadcom. I could get a quad pci-e intel nics, but i am too cheap. lol. Maybe someone will make one soon. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Jim Pingle wrote: Curtis Maurand wrote: Check this one out. It should work just fine. Very inexpensive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262 I mentioned that one elsewhere in the thread. Three of them just arrived in my office and I'm getting ready to test them out. :-) First cool observation, they actually have an internal USB port. Not just pins, but a real port. There are some really tiny USB flash drives that could be used to run these with (cheap) solid state media. A couple more things after some tinkering. Picture of the mainboard: http://twitpic.com/lr2tc It's got 4x SATA connectors and 1x PATA, though there isn't really room in the case for more than 1 3.5 drive (or 2x2.5 with an optional bracket, I hear). 2 USB ports on the back, but headers for 5 more inside plus an actual internal USB connector (mentioned above) A second internal COM port header (there is a knockout for a 25-pin connector on the back, too) There is a molex power connector on the mainboard (male) labeled For Device power only. Looks like a few extra fan headers if they're needed (probably not) dmesg output: http://pastebin.com/f22413e10 Power draw, according to my Kill-a-Watt: Drive spin-up: 48w Booting: 33w/0.33a with occasional bumps to 36w Idle: 32w/0.33a When powered off and plugged in, it draws 1w/0.04a Haven't been able to do any load testing yet. Jim - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Anybody else? I don't have any experience with Marvell other than in my Laptop. I assume they are better than Realtek... I have a myriad of Intel, Broadcom, 1 marvell now and several realtek nics on various equipment I manage. Although the realtek's aren't performers like the Broadcoms or Intels and some need additional drivers in some distro's they all work. I have seen every preposterous event with a Yukon like providing bad mac address during pxe boot, poor performance and some needed some absolutely pedantic methods to configure parameters like Yukon's under Solaris. I'd rather have a Realtek if I had to. jlc
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On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:32 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I'd rather have a Realtek if I had to. I second that! Cheers, Phil
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Does anyone make an atom board with intel onboard. I'd rather intel if i had my choice. I have seen a couple of flexatx atom boards that look real promising, but they don't have intel nics. Ryan Rodrigue http://www.aarelectronics.com/ http://www.aarelectronics.com/ http://www.aarelectronics.com/ http://www.aarelectronics.com/ Office: (985) 876-4096 Fax: (985) 853-0134 radiote...@aaremail.com mailto:radiote...@aaremail.com _ From: Philippe LeCavalier [mailto:supp...@plecavalier.com] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:16 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:32 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I'd rather have a Realtek if I had to. I second that! Cheers, Phil __ NOD32 4511 (20091015) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com image002.gif
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Ryan wrote: Does anyone make an atom board with intel onboard. I'd rather intel if i had my choice. I have seen a couple of flexatx atom boards that look real promising, but they don't have intel nics. MSI has a board with 2x1GB Intel NICs, the IM-945GSE http://www.mini-box.com/MSI-IM-945GSE-Mini-ITX-Motherboard Looks promising, indeed, but I'd prefer a dual core atom board, personally. I've got a couple of these on order for a customer, I'm going to try to beat them around a bit and see how the Realtek nics hold up: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262 You can get a PCI-E riser for that and then get a multi-port Intel card to use if you want, too. I think (but don't quote me on it) that I heard there was a Jetway daughtboard with intel NICs also. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Hi Ryan, I'm just testing an atom wth re(4) but the NIC-Chip shouldn't be the problem. I started a thread in the Forum, so i don't want to crosspost here. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,19808.0.html I just try to build a Kernel working with that board and PF-Sense ... Am 15.10.2009 um 19:25 schrieb Ryan: Does anyone make an atom board with intel onboard. I'd rather intel if i had my choice. I have seen a couple of flexatx atom boards that look real promising, but they don't have intel nics. Ryan Rodrigue image002.gif Office: (985) 876-4096 Fax: (985) 853-0134 radiote...@aaremail.com From: Philippe LeCavalier [mailto:supp...@plecavalier.com] Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:16 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:32 +, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I'd rather have a Realtek if I had to. I second that! Cheers, Phil __ NOD32 4511 (20091015) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com -- kommunity GmbH Co.KG - Goseriede 4, D-30159 Hannover Telefon: +49 (0)5 11 - 80 72 58 - 0 Fax: +49 (0)5 11 - 80 72 58 - 10 Mail: mailto:tmu...@kommunity.net, Web: http://www.kommunity.net USt.-IDNr.: DE 813740826; Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hannover; Registernummer: HRA 26721; Persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin: kommunity Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH vertreten durch den Geschäftsführer Tom Müller-Kortkamp; Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hannover; Registernummer: HRB 60200 Teamviewer-Support-Link: http://www.kommunity.biz - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Hi Ryan, I'm just testing an atom wth re(4) but the NIC-Chip shouldn't be the problem. I started a thread in the Forum, so i don't want to crosspost here. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,19808.0.html I just try to build a Kernel working with that board and PF-Sense ... I find most of these Atom board use realtek nics. I gues in an attempt to keep cost down. I am not interested in atom for its size or power consumption. I guess i am stange, but i like the idea of building a decent system for under $250 For the price of the MSI board mentioned in a different post, I can buy a chaep Intel MB and processor for about $160 and have room for expansion. I like the $120 price range expecially since it includes the processor. That pus a cheap case with PSU ($30), 3 intel nics ($20 each - 6$, and a transcend ide or sata disk module ($30) and i have a working system for $240. If it had 2 onboard intel nics, that drops $40 off the price and leaves room for expansion. I also like the low poer consumtion and low heat that mans i can slap a larger heatsink and get rid of the processor fan. That helps eliminate a point of failure and maintance. Just my $.02 PS. sorry for top posting earlier. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Anybody else? I don't have any experience with Marvell other than in my Laptop. I assume they are better than Realtek... I have a myriad of Intel, Broadcom, 1 marvell now and several realtek nics on various equipment I manage. Although the realtek's aren't performers like the Broadcoms or Intels and some need additional drivers in some distro's they all work. I have seen every preposterous event with a Yukon like providing bad mac address during pxe boot, poor performance and some needed some absolutely pedantic methods to configure parameters like Yukon's under Solaris. I'd rather have a Realtek if I had to. I'd rather have neither. I've seen some really bad behavior on onboard Realtek cards on Atom boards, all kinds of various things not working properly depending on the board. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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I'd rather have neither. Won't argue that:) All of this has me concerned, I am waiting on some other issues but was about to order a 3 nic Alix board and saw it uses Via VT6105M 10/100 nics? I haven't used Via in years, how do these perform, and issues you have seen Chris? Thanks! jlc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I'd rather have neither. Won't argue that:) All of this has me concerned, I am waiting on some other issues but was about to order a 3 nic Alix board and saw it uses Via VT6105M 10/100 nics? I haven't used Via in years, how do these perform, and issues you have seen Chris? They do well, you can push ~85 Mbps through them and the NICs work fine, no known quirks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: Ryan wrote: I'm thinking about picking up a Supermicro Atom based system for use with pfSense: Has anybody tried pfSense with a board like this? http://www.avalue.com.tw/products/ECM-945GSE.cfm Regards, -Jeppe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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The D945 chipset works with PFSense - I see no reason why it wouldn't work. Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg Sr. Systems Administrator - Atlas Networks, LLC office: 206.577.3078 | suncadia: 206.210.5450 www.atlasnetworks.us | www.suncadianet.com -Original Message- From: Jeppe Øland [mailto:jol...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:52 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: Ryan wrote: I'm thinking about picking up a Supermicro Atom based system for use with pfSense: Has anybody tried pfSense with a board like this? http://www.avalue.com.tw/products/ECM-945GSE.cfm Regards, -Jeppe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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On Wed, October 14, 2009 21:52, Jeppe Ãland wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: Ryan wrote: I'm thinking about picking up a Supermicro Atom based system for use with pfSense: Has anybody tried pfSense with a board like this? http://www.avalue.com.tw/products/ECM-945GSE.cfm those seem good :) jsut couldn't find anywhere to sell (thus no price tag). If you have any, thanks, matheus Regards, -Jeppe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org -- We will call you cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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Has anybody tried pfSense with a board like this? http://www.avalue.com.tw/products/ECM-945GSE.cfm I don't know about FreeBSD's support of Marvell nics, but based on my experience with them in Solaris and RHEL I won't even let one in my site without calling the janitor and his garbage cart. Just my 2 cents:) jlc
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I'm thinking about picking up a Supermicro Atom based system for use with pfSense: Has anybody tried pfSense with a board like this? http://www.avalue.com.tw/products/ECM-945GSE.cfm those seem good :) jsut couldn't find anywhere to sell (thus no price tag). If you have any, I am getting a price directly from Avalue USA. The board is in production, and there is no minimum quantity to order. My guess would be a price in the $3-400 range ... I will write it as soon as I hear back from them. I don't know about FreeBSD's support of Marvell nics, but based on my experience with them in Solaris and RHEL I won't even let one in my site without calling the janitor and his garbage cart. Anybody else? I don't have any experience with Marvell other than in my Laptop. I assume they are better than Realtek... Regards, -Jeppe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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I'm thinking about picking up a Supermicro Atom based system for use with pfSense: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-H. cfm?typ=H Any thoughts on potential issues with running pfSense on this hardware? Thanks in advance, Sterling Windmill The realtek nics they use are not the best. I wish they would use intel. It is an intel board after all. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
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- Original Message - From: Ryan radiote...@aaremail.com To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 4:02:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware I'm thinking about picking up a Supermicro Atom based system for use with pfSense: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-H. cfm?typ=H Any thoughts on potential issues with running pfSense on this hardware? Thanks in advance, Sterling Windmill The realtek nics they use are not the best. I wish they would use intel. It is an intel board after all. If I only use the realtek NICs for my relatively slow WAN(s) do you think this box would work well with an Intel quad port PCIe NIC handling the interfaces with more traffic?
Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware
Ryan wrote: I'm thinking about picking up a Supermicro Atom based system for use with pfSense: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-H. cfm?typ=H Any thoughts on potential issues with running pfSense on this hardware? The realtek nics they use are not the best. I wish they would use intel. It is an intel board after all. I've been looking at something like that, or the MSI IM-945GSE. http://www.orbitmicro.com/global/ms-9830-010-p-9546.html?ref=base The MSI board has 2x Intel gigabit NICs I like the SuperMicro box though, especially the short 1U case, would be perfect for telco/2-post racks. I'd only question the NIC support, and it seems like that might be ok now: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=123123 That went in before 7.2 was out, so you'd probably need a 1.2.3-RC2 snap. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
