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 >>

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 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

2009-12-14 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 chi

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

2009-12-12 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: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.

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: support-unsubs

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

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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread David Burgess
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Ryan wrote: > 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

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

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 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. Bes

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 offic

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Jim Pingle
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 > > What kind of internal slot and riser is this? PCI, I presume? > Ther

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 http://leitl.o

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. :-) Fi

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 be

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Curtis Maurand
Check this one out. It should work just fine. Very inexpensive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262 Paul Mansfield wrote: 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 coupl

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 em2

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 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 b

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Joseph L. Casale 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 th

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 11:32 AM, Joseph L. Casale 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. A

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 .

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Tom Müller-Kortkamp
: (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

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 http://www.mini-box.com/MSI-IM-945

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-15 Thread Ryan
5, 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 __

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 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 Intel

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 an

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. Jus

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 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/pro

RE: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-14 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
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 wrote: > > Ryan wrote: > >>> I'm thinkin

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-14 Thread Jeppe Øland
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Jim Pingle 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

2009-08-27 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

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-08-27 Thread Sterling Windmill
- Original Message - From: "Ryan" 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 >

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 >