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English Forums => Hardware and Performance => Topic started by: sagem2004 on December 03, 2017, 04:18:34 pm
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Bonjour ,
Compatible avec Opnsense
https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/Eglobal-Fanless-Pfsense-Mini-PC-6-Intel-Gigabit-Lans-RJ45-Core-i3-7100U-2-4GHz-Win10/32823553514.html
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No reason why it shouldn't - the Kaby Lake i3 has AES-NI and 4 threads with 4GB of RAM is ample.
Bart...
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thank you
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I am using a similar item, i7-5550U altho.
works fine.
Using openvpn on all network, delivers all my 250/250 mbit connection encryptet and hovers around 60 degrees and almsot no cpu usage.
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I purchased this one in November 14, 2017: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4-Ethernet-RJ-45-Lan-Ports-Mini-PC-Celeron-J1800-Dual-Cores-2-41Ghz-Pfsense-Firewall/32810774479.html (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4-Ethernet-RJ-45-Lan-Ports-Mini-PC-Celeron-J1800-Dual-Cores-2-41Ghz-Pfsense-Firewall/32810774479.html)
4*Ethernet RJ-45 Lan Ports Mini PC
Celeron J1800 Dual Cores 2.41Ghz Does not have AES-NI
NIC: Intel 82583V Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Overall I'm happy with this purchase and would recommend the system to others for small business/home-office use. I have it running as a multi-wan failover only scenario.
Prior to this build I was running my dual-wan setup on an ASUS RT-68u with Merlin firmware and was having a lot of issues with failover and DHCP from the cable-ISP modem. Prior to that I was running on an ALIX 2d3 for quite a few years and "the other"-Sense which actually worked wonderfully until my ISP speeds were upgraded-increased beyond what the aging hardware could handle. Once I was above 75Mbps the Alix platform would stall during heavy downloads... causing my to upgrade to the ASUS router as a stop-gap until I could afford to build something more current.
More Details:
I am not affiliated with the manuf nor do I sell these devices. This was my first purchase from ALIExpress so I was a bit hesitant to try it out but I was getting tired of the issues with RT-68U and really liked the features and price point. The product arrived very quickly to the US East Coast, about 7 days after I ordered. I configured it with 4GB RAM and 32GB SSD so about $14x.00 USD total. The device came preinstalled with W7 on it, which I tested out just to see how it ran and was fine before I wiped it clean. I then installed OPNSENSE 17.7.5 VGA version from USB. It took a bit of reading to find the right way to build the USB installer image, dd didn't work but Etcher did. Also, I had to plug the USB directly into one of the two available USB ports for it to recognize as a bootable device in the UEFI (vs plugging it into a USB hub). Why did I use a hub? I thought I might need a mouse so I needed USB KB, USB Mouse, and USB Flash drive but it turns out the Mouse didn't work with the installer anyway so I just needed one port for KB and the other for the flash installer.
After getting OPNSENSE installed it recognized the 4x Intel GIGABIT ports and the rest of the configuration went smoothly. I updated it to 17.5.7 and ran it at that version, best uptime was about 24days before I ran into some issues I posted about in another thread, but I've since sorted out and am on 17.7.11 with 3.5 days uptime now.
Versions OPNsense 17.7.11-amd64
FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p17
OpenSSL 1.0.2n 7 Dec 2017
Updates Click to check for updates.
CPU Type Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU J1800 @ 2.41GHz (2 cores)
Load average 0.43, 0.35, 0.29
Uptime 3 days 17:19:16
Some things I would note:
1) I haven't been able to get the serial com1 port to work yet, not sure if it's a hardware issue, cable issue (RJ45-DB9), or OPNSENSE is just not outputting secondary console to com1. I don't need it enough to troubleshoot it yet... but I've got it on my to-do's to sort out.
2) This CPU does not have AES-NI instructions so it may not work with future FreeBSD based router software updates. One of the reasons I've gone with OPNSENSE is the hope that they will continue to not require advanced HW on hobbiest/prosumer installs.
3) The system runs a bit "warm" I would say. CPU Temps are reported at 67-71deg C in my AC office. That appears to be within spec for this platform. There isn't any MB headers for a CPU fan nor is there a lot of clearance between the heatsink and the top of the case to add one... just fyi in case that is a concern for anyone.
4) Power usage is low, performance meets my requirements, have a high-tech family with lots of devices streaming media and gaming and have not had any issues yet. CPU and Memory utilization have not been a concern but I haven't done any advanced functions yet with proxy, malware filtering, etc though.
5) The Power connector and VGA header is on one side of the box and the ethernet ports are on the opposite side making cable routing a bit of a hassle.
Anyway, that's about all I can think of for now, I'm still fairly new to OPNSense community and I'm not sure I can offer any guidance to others but I'm happy to try.