RE: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> Hope you've got a few PCI-X dual-port Intel NICs as well, these can be hard > to get nowadays, even used. Up to my ears. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discussion-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: discussion-

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 08:06:46PM +, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > > Just in case somebody has the same hardware, here's a dmesg dump Notice I > > had to put > > > > # cat /boot/loader.conf > > legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 > > legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 > > > > to get of legal warnings in th

RE: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> Just in case somebody has the same hardware, here's a dmesg dump Notice I > had to put > > # cat /boot/loader.conf > legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1 > legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1 > > to get of legal warnings in the dmesg output. Thanks - I have about 300 of these sitting in stacks at the momen

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:14:47AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:53:19PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > > > > It would probably still beat my 4x NIC 1.6 GHz dual-core Atoms > > > (about Pentium 3 level of performa

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:53:19PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > > It would probably still beat my 4x NIC 1.6 GHz dual-core Atoms > > (about Pentium 3 level of performance) > > You'd be surprised - a dual core Atom is considerably faster

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:53:19PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > > It would probably still beat my 4x NIC 1.6 GHz dual-core Atoms > > (about Pentium 3 level of performance) > > You'd be surprised - a dual core Atom is considerably faster

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-26 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > It would probably still beat my 4x NIC 1.6 GHz dual-core Atoms > (about Pentium 3 level of performance) You'd be surprised - a dual core Atom is considerably faster than a P3 at pushing packets, depending on NICs and the specific board. The

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 06:13:20PM +0100, Greg Hennessy wrote: > Depends on what you mean by Gbit ? > > Gigabit @ imix packet distribution ? possibly. It's a GBit link at a colo, pretty lightly loaded at the moment. > Gigabit @ high rate, small packet size, very doubtful. It would probably

RE: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-26 Thread Greg Hennessy
om > Subject: [pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750 > > > A working (dead hard drive) Dell PowerEdge 750 (1 GByte RAM, > can probably double or quadruple that) with two Intel NICs > onboard (have another dual-port server NIC that fits) > fell into my hands. CPU is probably

[pfSense-discussion] Dell PowerEdge 750

2010-10-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
A working (dead hard drive) Dell PowerEdge 750 (1 GByte RAM, can probably double or quadruple that) with two Intel NICs onboard (have another dual-port server NIC that fits) fell into my hands. CPU is probably a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4. Is this useful material for a pfSense firewall that can handle ~GB