Intel i225 now supported in 22.1?

[Daneel67]

The box starts in eufi ... checked it also eufi usb-live cd ... It simply gives the same error all the time.
Im really not happy like this. Why does it not start the nic's? The box is very fast, and if the nic's would work, it is an amazing firewall.

Ill check if I can install freeBSD 13 and get OpnSense to work as a plugin or something like that. But without VirtualBox or any virtualisation ;)

[meyergru]

In the pfsense thread, there were two more tips:

1. Disable any other NIC in the system.
2. Boot up with no cable plugged in.

Would be interesting to see if the system works with vanilla FreeBSD oder Linux.

[Daneel67]

These are the only 2 NIC's in the system. The bios is very primitive and disabling of any NIC is not an option
I beleave, sorry.
No cable attached is what I did, because I (wanted) to use autodetect when setting up the system.

I do appreciate your input tho :)
Im scanning the internet also for solutions and if anybody else has encountered this and most of all ... what did they do to solve this.

Going for a FreeBSD option is a bit of a problem for me. Im almost 55 and grew up with MS-DOS/Windows. I know a lot about MS products but absolutely 0 of Linux and similar OS's. But if I have to (and if it looks like that would solve my problem) then I will. Im not lazy  only very new at this.

I also looked aroud for another HW-solution. But many boxes have the same 2.5gbit NIC('s) and Im not sure they will work.

[meyergru]

I have a HUNSN RS34g and that works fine as I wrote - it is also dirt cheap:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09PHHXN9V

It is available as RS34f with I210 as well. The RS34g has only one SODIMM slot if you want to buy it as a barebone, the RS34f has two. Internal storage is M.2/SATA or plain 2.5" SATA.

The machine is about 80% performance of the DEC7x0 at ~10 Watts. It has USB and HDMI/VGA output, so you can access the BIOS - essentially, this is a PC with 4 NICs.

I would not try to fuse FreeBSD and OpnSense together, but just test if Linux or FreeBSD work plain vanilla - so you could see if there is a problem with OpnSense kernel specifically.


P.S.: There is now a review out from ServeTheHome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUcDg_ms0is

[hushcoden]

I've just got my Topton fanless appliance with 4x ports i225-V from AliExpress, installed OPNsense and it works with no problems  8)

[meyergru]

Nice. That one is available even with an N6005, which has more performance than the J4125, especially single-threaded. Slightly higher cost and power draw, but not too much.

[Daneel67]

Yes, i oredered the Topton with the Pentium N6005.
-1 because it supports M2-nvme drives (I already have one from the not working box) and has 2 so-dimm ddr4 slots and  I already have 2x8GB in my drawer ;)
-2 it has a bit more performance and I want to use incoming and outgoing VPN and all of that requires some power as well.

It should arrive april 8th ... cant wait \o/

[thaliya]

Have you guys been able to run these boxes without issues?
I also got the Topton Box but im running into problems with it. I wanted the extra Ports for 1 PC and 1 Server but its kind of unstable with OPNSense. Slow Speed Iperf (like only 60MB/s to sometimes 170 MB/s) and the NICs disconnects with load.
Tested with Realtek and Intel on the other side.

[meyergru]

It runs fine here with a few caveats w/r to power draw and heat dissipation (https://www.congenio.de/infos/opnsense-hardware.html).

I did not use 2.5 GBit/s, but with 1 GBit/s, I get the expected results:

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#iperf3 -c 192.168.1.9
Connecting to host 192.168.1.9, port 5201
[  5] local 192.168.10.3 port 36008 connected to 192.168.1.9 port 5201
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   114 MBytes   956 Mbits/sec  837    266 KBytes
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   112 MBytes   944 Mbits/sec  763    269 KBytes
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   112 MBytes   938 Mbits/sec  674    272 KBytes
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   112 MBytes   938 Mbits/sec  660    249 KBytes
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   112 MBytes   942 Mbits/sec  717    208 KBytes
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   113 MBytes   949 Mbits/sec  1107    252 KBytes
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   111 MBytes   931 Mbits/sec  803    257 KBytes
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec  1126    257 KBytes
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   941 Mbits/sec  1047    260 KBytes
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   939 Mbits/sec  1091    255 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.10 GBytes   942 Mbits/sec  8825             sender
[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.09 GBytes   940 Mbits/sec                  receiver

iperf Done.


But you said you wanted two ports for clients - I assume you are using a bridged configuration? There seem to be some issues around that with 22.1.