I guess Intel Chipset H110 is still a little to new! Solved in FreeBSD 11

[MrCCL]

Just bought an Asus H110T (H110 chipset). Slim-ITX, 2xLAN (1xIntel & 1xRealtek), DC power and support for the newest gen. 6 CPU (socket 1151)....price around 75$.
CPU:Celeron G3900T or Pentium G4400T (both 35W and AES-NI)..42$/64$.
Seem to be a nice kit for OPNsense for a good price.

But current stable FreeBSD 10.3 it VEEEEERY slow booting from install USB. I tried the 11 and that's boot just fine.
Current version of pfsense and OPNsense, same problem, very slow (as expected as the problem seem to be related to FreeBSD 10.3).

Maybe I should play around with VMware ESXi until 11 is implemented in OPNsense?

*UPDATE*
Problem solved....on my board the bootloader is failing unless using UEFI. And to make UEFI work I had to disable the Win10-secure-bios-boot-whatever-stuff.
Now I can boot FreeBSD 10.3 :-)
No work-around needed anyway :-P

[franco]

VMware is a good solution. Using byhyve on a FreeBSD 11 host would work too, given that the network bits are plugged correctly into the OPNsense VM.


Cheers,
Franco

[MrCCL]

Just did a quick and simple SSL benchmark test: VMware ESXi 6.0 vs. bare-metal (no VM)
CPU Pentium G4400T 2,9Ghz:

ESXi:
#openssl speed -engine cryptodev -multi 2 aes-128-cbc aes-192-cbc aes-256-cbc
aes-128 cbc     231313.74k   256633.05k   261830.53k   265155.24k   264773.63k
aes-192 cbc     194559.56k   213654.85k   214607.02k   220203.69k   220585.98k
aes-256 cbc     169802.58k   182031.75k   186861.23k   188047.02k   188506.11k

Bare-metal:
#openssl speed -engine cryptodev -multi 2 aes-128-cbc aes-192-cbc aes-256-cbc
aes-128 cbc     232662.34k   257887.64k   264367.02k   265849.76k   267400.53k
aes-192 cbc     197960.09k   215825.92k   219986.86k   221652.99k   222325.42k
aes-256 cbc     171786.18k   185165.18k   187883.29k   189288.79k   189964.29k

I would say the difference will not be noticeable, nice!
Didn't test network transfer...maybe that will show a bigger difference......but that that's must be another day