On 2013-11-07 17:38, Vick Khera wrote:
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Thinker Rix <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:So if I understand you right, even if I use pfSense 2.1 (FreeBSD 8.3) on a motherboard with a brand new chipset (Intel C222) and CPU (e.g. Core i3 / Haswell) it should work, eventhough FreeBSD 8.3 is older than those technologies and might not fully support the chipset yet (e.g. due to general compatibility with i386-64 CPUs?!)?Yes. Intel is pretty good about keeping backward compatibility so the newer chipsets work with older software for the most part. I personally have never had issues with this other than a missing driver for a specific LSI RAID-on-motherboard chipset that Sun used in the old X4100 servers. It was supported only on newer FreeBSD.
I do not care all to much about on-board disk controllers or NICs, since I use own hardware for that (3ware RAID & Intel 1000/Pro Quad).
The only thing that I really worried about, was that the motherboard chipset/CPU-kit would not be supported, thus rendering the whole system useless. But thanks to your answer, I know now that I was worrying for no reason. Vick, I this information is of great value to me, thank you very much!
Regards Thinker Rix
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