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English Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Solaris17 on August 07, 2015, 04:20:28 am
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Hi everyone! its taken months too get signed up entered the wrong email for activation and only recently found the link to fix that lol oops.
I have to say I love the project! I am very excited to dive into opnsense and I am super happy (mostly because I was specifically waiting for) that an IDS has been implemented and is now default on WAN (THANK YOU!) With my excitement to dive in I made have made a mistake. I hope this is ok to ask here if not please show me to the road to hardware compatibility. I bought a bare bones machine with DUAL NICs the chipsets are Realtek 8111Gs unfortunately I didn't realize Realtek was pretty much taboo for BSD.
That said since its a home I am not too worried about performance degradation ATM I will replace if necessary of course. My question is opnsense compatible with the 8111G chips? I have seen issues googling. Most were found in posts dated from 2013 in the pfsense forums. promising implementation in 10 alpha. I was just wondering if any version of opnsense currently or in the future supports these before I attempt to cancel the order or return it.
Thanks much! can't wait to get started!!
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I haven't checked PCI IDs but from the looks of it it is supported by FreeBSD 10 (we run FreeBSD 10.1).
I believe the issue with Realtek is more in terms of quirky chipsets and poor performance, not the drivers per se.
In any case, thank you and welcome! :)
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Thats great news! I'm relieved I can't wait to use it I wish I could control shipping! Again been watching this project for awhile absolutely love what you and the team are doing! Good job!
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Don't mean to double post but Just wanted to update you guys on this for reasons. Went ahead and bought the following. Knowing after that realtek chips apparently arent that great at this kind of thing. /shrug.
The machine.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101162
The CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116974
the ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231768&cm_re=gskill_1333-_-20-231-768-_-Product
SSD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211717
Currently it works great!
http://www.speedtest.net/result/4583687351.png
I totally forgot an AP though (DAMNIT) but ill get one next week or so.
I had a bit of an issue setting up. forgot to release the IP provided by my ONT which kept my router from gaining a WAN IP but I got it figured out. The thermal probs, smart data, and graphs work fine with this setup. im loving the options and granularity so far. Happy to have gotten off of consumer routers. Loving the experience so far!
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Nice work, happy to hear that things are going well. If they aren't you know where to poke. :)