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English Forums => Hardware and Performance => Topic started by: kirkrr on August 20, 2019, 10:45:00 pm

Title: Are there any good OPNSense 19.7 USB 3 gigE options???
Post by: kirkrr on August 20, 2019, 10:45:00 pm

I have a couple Lenovo M73 thin clients, all with 6 USB ports, displayPort, 1 gigE port, VGA, 4th gen i5, 8gb ram, 128gb SSD boxes, and have one set up right now as OPNSense. However, the 2nd USB port is currently the Apple device, which works great, but is bandwidth constrained by USB2.

I'd like to find one with USB 3 that would support the gigE connection.

The Plugable USB3-E1000 is NOT OPNSense/pfSense/FreeBSD/HardenedBSD 11.2 compatible, so that's going back.

Title: Re: Are there any good OPNSense 19.7 USB 3 gigE options???
Post by: tusc on August 21, 2019, 05:14:53 am

I don't believe so. I recently migrated from Sophos UTM to OPNSense and tried two different USB 3 Ethernet cards and never got above 300Mbps. They both could handle line speed under Linux. I had to switch from using an Asus Chromebox to an HP T620 Plus. Now I'm using a quad port Intel and speeds are back to normal.

Title: Re: Are there any good OPNSense 19.7 USB 3 gigE options???
Post by: monstermania on August 21, 2019, 09:16:07 am

AFAIK the Lenovo M73 has a mini pci-e slot on board.
So it should be possible to use a network card like this: https://www.amazon.de/Delock-MiniPCIe-PCIe-half-Gigabit/dp/B00FOR0L9Y

Title: Re: Are there any good OPNSense 19.7 USB 3 gigE options???
Post by: kirkrr on September 01, 2019, 10:45:46 pm

It does, but there is no place to put the external ethernet connector. :-(

Title: Re: Are there any good OPNSense 19.7 USB 3 gigE options???
Post by: kirkrr on September 02, 2019, 01:07:09 am

So picked up a t620+ and installed a Intel i350 quad port ethernet.

OPNSense would only boot, IF I used the nano version
The booted copy allows me to select detected ethernet ports and assign IP address (or allow DHCP, which, if connected to the LAN, gets a valid address).
However, I cannot connect to the assigned ports.
I moved the T620 and a Win Laptop onto an isolated network, with only these 2 devices and a ethernet switch, manually set IP addresses but ...........

When I attempt to PING the T620/OPNSense machine, I get a "destination unreachable" BUT with all packets sent, received and zero packet loss.

As I can't attach to this OPNSense box, I am limited as to what I can perform at the console.

Suggestions??