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Thanks dude ;D

Hi Guys where is the switch to enable qat in opnsense

Thanks

Bumping this as I had the same issue today.

Thanks for posting this we are about to install 2 x Supermicro servers and its good to know they get recognised with c620 chips

Hi All

I pulled my 12-year-old pc https://www.asrock.com/mb/amd/970%20extreme3%20r2.0/ out and rebuilt it as it was in bits. I installed opnsense and installed two 4-port Intel cards. 32 Gig of 2100 ram and ran some iperf3 tests and it was pushing 940mbps out of the box. Took me a day to mess around and set it up due to never having seen opnsense before,

Very impressed with what it can do with old hardware. Looking forward to running my supermicro servers next week with QAT enabled denverton cpu's

No, but then I never cared if I get the max out of the interfaces. Everything is snappy and fast.

Let's see ...

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root@freenas[~]# iperf3 -P 4 -c 192.168.1.1
Connecting to host 192.168.1.1, port 5201
[  5] local 192.168.1.10 port 58040 connected to 192.168.1.1 port 5201
[  7] local 192.168.1.10 port 26393 connected to 192.168.1.1 port 5201
[  9] local 192.168.1.10 port 59456 connected to 192.168.1.1 port 5201
[ 11] local 192.168.1.10 port 48422 connected to 192.168.1.1 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  30.4 MBytes   255 Mbits/sec    0    726 KBytes       
[  7]   0.00-1.00   sec  26.1 MBytes   219 Mbits/sec    0    322 KBytes       
[  9]   0.00-1.00   sec  26.1 MBytes   219 Mbits/sec    0    323 KBytes       
[ 11]   0.00-1.00   sec  30.4 MBytes   255 Mbits/sec    0    726 KBytes       
[SUM]   0.00-1.00   sec   113 MBytes   947 Mbits/sec    0             
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Looks good to me.

BTW: the SYS-5018D-FN4T has got the X10SDV-8C-TLN4F, not the X11SDV-12C-TLN4F. That's why I wrote it was essentially the same as the ones I run.

Not bad for a 1 Gig interface, as you would expect for kernel throughput as opposed to user space.  I am looking at running encrypted workloads hence the Quick Assist stuff, to accelerate encrypted virtual networks.

I noticed that X10 over my X11 great boards.

Thanks for all your feedback; very encouraging.

I swear by Supermicro gear. The embedded SoC systems in Mini-ITX format are not cheap but just insanely great.

I run this selection of mainboards in various system with either TrueNAS or OPNsense, so all FreeBSD 13:

X10SDV-TLN4F
X10SDV-4C-TLN4F
A2SDi-8C+-HLN4F
A2SDi-8C-HLN4F
A2SDi-4C-HLN4F

So twice the same series as you intend to use. I'm confident it will work great.

HTH,
Patrick

Thank you for the response. That's really great to know; how are they performing? Did you need to tweak the setup in the cli to get the max out of the interfaces?

Hi All,

I am looking to build opnsense on 2 of these super micro chassis SYS-5018D-FN4T its all Intel based on the SOC and NIC's

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Spec
12-Core D2166NT XEON,
Intel Quick Assist Technology
Up to 256GB Registered ECC RDIMM, DDR4-2133MHz; Up to 512GB LRDIMM LRDIMM, DDR4-2133MHz, in 4 DIMM slots 1 PCIe 3.0 x8,
1 PCIe 3.0 x16
1 Mini-PCIe,
2 PCIe 3.0 NVMe x4 Internal Port(s)
1 M.2 M-Key SATA/PCIe 3.0 x4, 2280
1 M.2 B-Key SATA/PCIe 3.0 x2, 3042
U.2 Interface: 2 PCIe 3.0 x4
SoC controller for 12 SATA3 (6 Gbps) ports; RAID 0,1,5,10
Quad LAN with Intel® Ethernet Controller I350-AM4
Dual LAN with 10G SFP+ LAN via SoC
Dual LAN with 10Gbase-T

Does anyone have any experience with super micros? I checked the FreeBSD specs and seemed ok.

Anyone got any opinions, Were contemplating PfSense but want to support an Open-source community.

Thanks In advance