Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Mansfield
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-12-15 Thread Seth Mos
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Mansfield
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?

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-12-14 Thread Paul Mansfield
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-12-14 Thread Jeppe Øland
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:

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-12-12 Thread Jeppe Øland
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:

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-27 Thread Jeppe Øland
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-27 Thread Paul Mansfield
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:

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Mansfield
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
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?

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Mansfield
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Paul Mansfield
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Jim Pingle
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Jim Pingle
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,

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
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.

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Jim Pingle
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

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Ryan
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Jim Pingle
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

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
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

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Philippe LeCavalier
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

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Ryan
: [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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Jim Pingle
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Tom Müller-Kortkamp
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

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Ryan
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Buechler
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

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Buechler
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-14 Thread Jeppe Øland
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

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-14 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
[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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-14 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Wed, October 14, 2009 21:52, Jeppe Øland 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?

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-14 Thread Jeppe Øland
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

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-08-27 Thread Ryan
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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-08-27 Thread Sterling Windmill
- 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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Pingle
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.