Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-07 Thread Michael Schuh
Hi there, 2013/11/7 Thinker Rix thinke...@rocketmail.com Hi Michael, On 2013-11-06 11:37, Michael Schuh wrote: i have serval different Systems running, including an old 3GHz Intel Pentium D-CPU with 2GBytes ECC Memory: 4 Nic, throughput max (so far): 115 MBytes/s at 20k irqs (no polling

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-06 Thread Michael Schuh
i have serval different Systems running, including an old 3GHz Intel Pentium D-CPU with 2GBytes ECC Memory: 4 Nic, throughput max (so far): 115 MBytes/s at 20k irqs (no polling enabled, no special tweaking) 1 Nic is Broadcom, 1 Nic is Intel Pro1000 Desktop Adapter, the other two Nic are an Intel

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-06 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 6/11/13 7:11 am, Thinker Rix wrote: Unfortunately the motherboards I plan to buy supports only the above-mentioned CPUs. - Pentium - 4th generation core i3 - Xeon E3-1200 v3 If your board supports a Core i3, it is *very* unlikely that it won't also support the i5 of the same generation

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 09:11:08AM +0200, Thinker Rix wrote: Unfortunately the motherboards I plan to buy supports only the above-mentioned CPUs. Anyone running pfSense on a HP Microserver G8? http://b3n.org/installed-xeon-e3-1230v2-in-gen8-hp-microserver/ These are dual Broadcoms BCM5717

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-06 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 6/11/13 12:30 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: Anyone running pfSense on a HP Microserver G8? I have - in the past - had it running on a G5 and a G6 if that's any help. One of our clients is using it on a G7. lspci on both mine show: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5723 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 04:12:09PM +, Chris Bagnall wrote: On 6/11/13 12:30 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: Anyone running pfSense on a HP Microserver G8? I have - in the past - had it running on a G5 and a G6 if that's any help. One of our clients is using it on a G7. lspci on both mine

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-05 Thread Thinker Rix
On 2013-10-24 19:30, Thinker Rix wrote: I am planning a new pfSense box and am wondering if the hardware that I want to use will be sufficient. Hardware: 2x Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Gigabit NICs, each directly connected via PCIe-8x to the North Bridge of the CPU 4x

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-05 Thread Moshe Katz
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Thinker Rix thinke...@rocketmail.comwrote: Hi all! I will finally go for brand new hardware for this pfSense box. Given the above-mentioned requirements, which of the following CPUs would you advise me to buy: Price Name Socket Cores Threads Cache Clock

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-11-05 Thread Thinker Rix
Hi Moshe, On 2013-11-06 08:35, Moshe Katz wrote: Price Name Socket Cores Threads Cache Clock default Clock Turbo 33.69 EUR Celeron 1155 2 2 2 MB 2.7 GHz -- 44.31 EUR Pentium 1155 2 2 3 MB 2.9 GHz -- 93.77 EUR Core i3 1155 2 4 3 MB 3.4 GHz -- 167.25 EUR Xeon 1155 4 4 8 MB

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 07:18:28PM -0500, Jim Thompson wrote: The topic has wandered away from pfSense. It is rather interesting though, so please don't kill that thread just yet. ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-25 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:08:14 +0200 schrieb Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 07:18:28PM -0500, Jim Thompson wrote: The topic has wandered away from pfSense. It is rather interesting though, so please don't kill that thread just yet. Indeed. I'd like to add that

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-25 Thread Matthias May
I will use a 802.11n router with 3 antennas that is able to operate simultaneously in the 2,4 GHz and 5 GHz band, so it advertises up to 900Mbps (i.e. 450 Mbps in the 2,4 + 450 Mbps in the 5 GHz band) - I do not know if it is able to use 80 MHz channels, but I read at wikipedia that this is

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-25 Thread Thinker Rix
Hello Matthias, Thank you for your time! On 2013-10-25 12:45, Matthias May wrote: I will use a 802.11n router with 3 antennas that is able to operate simultaneously in the 2,4 GHz and 5 GHz band, so it advertises up to 900Mbps (i.e. 450 Mbps in the 2,4 + 450 Mbps in the 5 GHz band) - I do

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-25 Thread Matthias May
On 25/10/13 13:56, Thinker Rix wrote: You don't have multiple radios per card. You have multiple RF-chains which each can carry their own spatial stream. The number of antennas most often (but not necessarily) correlate with the number of RF-chains you have internally. Yes, as far as I

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 24/10/13 5:30 pm, Thinker Rix wrote: I want to have: - full Gigabit wire speed between the DMZ and the LAN zone (i.e. 2x Gigabit at max) Would have thought you'd be fine here. - full 450Mbps between the WLAN and pfsense Even with 450Mbps *radios* I'd be amazed if you get more than

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Jim Thompson
On Oct 24, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Chris Bagnall pfse...@lists.minotaur.cc wrote: On 24/10/13 5:30 pm, Thinker Rix wrote: I want to have: - full Gigabit wire speed between the DMZ and the LAN zone (i.e. 2x Gigabit at max) Would have thought you'd be fine here. - full 450Mbps between the

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Adam Thompson
On 13-10-24 12:49 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: If those wireless links are for exterior paths, and not simply 802.11 LANs, then you’re in for a huge amount of trouble, as wireless isn’t reliable. At all. I have to disagree, at least partially. In the wireless world, reliability costs!

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Moshe Katz
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Chris Bagnall pfse...@lists.minotaur.ccwrote: On 24/10/13 5:30 pm, Thinker Rix wrote: 1. Would the Core2Duo CPU be sufficient for my requirements or should I chose the 2,4 GHz Quad-core, the 2,89 GHz-Quad-core or maybe an even a more powerful CPU or totally

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Thinker Rix
Hi Chris, thank you for your time! On 2013-10-24 20:02, Chris Bagnall wrote: - full 450Mbps between the WLAN and pfsense Even with 450Mbps *radios* I'd be amazed if you get more than ~80Mbps out of your WLAN. Not a pfSense limitation, just a reality of WLAN claimed radio speeds. I generally

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 25/10/13 12:02 am, Thinker Rix wrote: Ok, I see. Does this change with a router that has a Gigabit-NIC to connect with pfSense, or isn't that the bottle neck? I've never encountered even a 100Mbps NIC being a wireless bottleneck at 2.4Ghz. The limitation is effective throughput through the

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 24/10/13 7:31 pm, Adam Thompson wrote: If I upgraded to a better-quality unit, or switched to licensed spectrum, I could probably eliminate the variability and increase speed simultaneously. Indeed, we have Ubiquiti kit running point to point links in the 5Ghz unlicensed spectrum (band C)

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Jim Thompson
The topic has wandered away from pfSense. -- Jim On Oct 24, 2013, at 18:48, Chris Bagnall pfse...@lists.minotaur.cc wrote: On 24/10/13 7:31 pm, Adam Thompson wrote: If I upgraded to a better-quality unit, or switched to licensed spectrum, I could probably eliminate the variability and

Re: [pfSense] Hardware requirements for gigabit wirespead

2013-10-24 Thread Espen Johansen
What else is new with thinker as op. 25. okt. 2013 02:18 skrev Jim Thompson j...@netgate.com følgende: The topic has wandered away from pfSense. -- Jim On Oct 24, 2013, at 18:48, Chris Bagnall pfse...@lists.minotaur.cc wrote: On 24/10/13 7:31 pm, Adam Thompson wrote: If I upgraded to