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A Lenovo M920q is about $140.  Add the PCIE16 Riser Card 01AJ940 with baffle for $35 and attach that to a Intel i350-t2 or t4 and you'll have something much better and dependable than those Aliexpress boxes in my opinion.


https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/lenovo-thinkcentre-thinkstation-tiny-project-tinyminimicro-reference-thread.34925/

Exactly this! Been Using a m720q with a 9100T, 16gb ram and Intel i350-AM2 SFP card directly connected to my AON and it has been rock solid!
Consumption is 11w idle which is almost the same as those n100 boxes which most of them have non optimized BIOS or even are unable to tweak them because of pore architecture...

Intel 9100T: 35WTDP
Intel 8500T: 35W TDP
Intel N100: 6W TDP

I use a Beelink EQ12 as router at the moment.

TDP has nothing to do with idle power consumption, just the max it can pull.
I get a 11w idle with the whole machine up and running and a 9100t, the n100 will not do much better in those boxes despite it's 6w TDP ;)

A Lenovo M920q is about $140.  Add the PCIE16 Riser Card 01AJ940 with baffle for $35 and attach that to a Intel i350-t2 or t4 and you'll have something much better and dependable than those Aliexpress boxes in my opinion.


https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/lenovo-thinkcentre-thinkstation-tiny-project-tinyminimicro-reference-thread.34925/

Exactly this! Been Using a m720q with a 9100T, 16gb ram and Intel i350-AM2 SFP card directly connected to my AON and it has been rock solid!
Consumption is 11w idle which is almost the same as those n100 boxes which most of them have non optimized BIOS or even are unable to tweak them because of pore architecture...

I tried the different methods from this thread to redirect everything to my pihole with cloudflare upstream dns.

When I change the DNS server of my computer to 8.8.8.8 and go to https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ and start a test, it then shows a bunch of google servers, so it doesn't seem to work. Or is my understanding wrong?

In another thread (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=15472.0) it is mentioned to create an outbound NAT translation. I haven't read that anywhere else. So is this needed?

Wondering this same question. Followed the guide but when I change my DNS server on my Iphone to 8.8.8.8 and run a dnsleaktest I can see the Google servers where I had expected my local unbound service?

All working now.. after setting it up again! Even when using 8.8.8.8 I can see the dns used is my local DNS service! :)

I tried the different methods from this thread to redirect everything to my pihole with cloudflare upstream dns.

When I change the DNS server of my computer to 8.8.8.8 and go to https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ and start a test, it then shows a bunch of google servers, so it doesn't seem to work. Or is my understanding wrong?

In another thread (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=15472.0) it is mentioned to create an outbound NAT translation. I haven't read that anywhere else. So is this needed?

Wondering this same question. Followed the guide but when I change my DNS server on my Iphone to 8.8.8.8 and run a dnsleaktest I can see the Google servers where I had expected my local unbound service?

Hi all,

For my system I followed this guide;

https://docs.opnsense.org/troubleshooting/performance.html

But there is one thing of which I am not sure what value to use.

net.inet.rss.bits = X
This one is dependent on the amount of cores you have. By default the amount of bits here represent the amount of cores x 2 in binary. This is done on purpose to provide load-balancing, though there is no current implementation for this so we recommend setting this value to the amount of bits representing the number of CPU cores. This means we use the following values:

for 4-core systems, use '2'
for 8-core systems, use '3'
for 16-core systems, use '4'
Etc.

I have a 6 core Intel 9500T and don't know if I should use 2 or 3 now.

Any ideas? Thanks!

PPPoE relies on single core performance.
I think this processor won't be enough for 2.5gb.

Better check a cpu for single core performance on cpubenchmark.net and get one with a high rating. You can compare with the n100 f.e.

One can enable a temperature widget on the dashboard.

However:

1. At this time, it shows the temperature as too high, because it itself raises the momentary CPU temperatures during the dashboard updates.

2. You probably cannot use it, because your OpnSense is virtualized.

That is what I did, and the widget is making me paranoid showing temps around 59/60 degrees idle...
But, checking temps from the console they are like 40 degrees...

So I felt the case, but it does indeed feels pretty hot, hard to say how hot, but I think the hottest hardware in my house haha

Edit: I plugged in a power measurement plug and it is idling @ 13.2W running a Speedtest will boost it to 16.7W

Bumping this old thread because I see the same behavior!

I will try that!

I am using a PPPoE connection which requires a Vlan tag 6 for internet.
My MTU is set @ 1508 so the calculated PPP MTU is 1500.

Is ti possible you have set the "limit" other than the default?

Regards,
S.

Nope, didn't touch the limit to get a good baseline. Wanted to tune later on, but this strange behavior is holding me back..

Hmm I am very curious about your BIOS settings now.

If I do a simple Speedtest (with shaper enabled) I can see all my cores go from around 800mhz to 2900mhz.
I checked this using HTOP with cpu frequency and temperature enabled..

A real stress test like prime or something I didn't do yet, not sure if there is a bootable version or something to do that because I don't run windows on this machine

Nice!
Strange thing I noticed is that when I stress the system with a bufferbloat test for example I see the cores go to 2999Mhz (3ghz), but the boost to 3,4ghz is never reached.

Is this normal behavior or did I do something wrong in my bios config which turned off the boost?

Got the same behavior after configuring it on my new N100 build..
Just configured everything following this guide:

https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/shaper_bufferbloat.html

Didn't apply any tweaks or optimization.. but as soon as it is enabled @ 850/850 which is 85% of my 1Gb connection the download is holding nicely @ +-819mbit but upload drops to 750mbit after starting @ +-819mbit like the download speed...

Disabling shaper and both up and download reach 930mbit again...
Can't remember this on older builds, could it be a bug??

Hi all,

I just finished installing Zenarmor/elastic8 local/native driver with a free license.
Everything is up and running now listening to my lan interface.

So, what is next?
I am a bit confused what to configure next, or is everything (for a simple home setup) enabled out of the box?
I can see some nice reports being generated :)

Oke, I am up and running with 16gb ram and a 256gb 2.5" SSD.
Running bare metal with ZenArmor, Shaper, Adblock, 1Gb up and down PPPoE including IPTV.

Eveything is working great, but I am a bit concerned about the temperature.
I applied new/better thermal paste, did some bios tweaks but OPNsens is reporting quite high temperatures running idle..

If I touch it, it also feels quite hot so the case is touching the CPU correctly I guess..