Supermicro X11SDV-12C-TLN4F and OPnsense

[jamest65]

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

[Patrick M. Hausen]

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

[jamest65]

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?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

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             
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


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.

[jamest65]

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             
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


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.