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Building a pfsense router? - make sure your CPU is 64 bit and supports AES-NI

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Chunkers:
Was watching this video and Mark Furneaux was talking about his router hardware change-out, quite boring tbh.  He mentions the version 2.4 requirement for 64 bit processor (which I knew) and then he mentioned something about announcement by Netgate regarding forward / future compatibility with version 2.5 will require a CPU which supports AES-NI

Jump to 56 seconds in for the good bit ...

[youtube]https://youtu.be/cTYgag9pGjc?t=43[/youtube]


I thought this was worth highlighting as some currently popular choices e.g. Celeron may not support future updates beyond 2.4 which is think is due pretty soon, I think its a shame personally.  I guess people who want to use old hardware will just end up using legacy versions or maybe some third party developer.

Chunks

Chrysalis:
celeron n3150 which i use is aesni :) great 10 watt cpu

thanks for the info

http://ark.intel.com/products/87258/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N3150-2M-Cache-up-to-2_08-GHz

the decision is likely to try and push netgate sales i think

Ronski:
I think there will be a lot of annoyed users,  I'm sure mine doesn't support AES-NI.

WWWombat:
Hmmm. Just when I had a pfSense box listed as one of my projects...  ::)

I started looking at the Qotom Q190G4 boxes (Celeron J1900), like @displaced, but that has no AES-NI support.
http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,19306.0.html

However, it looks like the Qotom Q310G4 (Celeron 3215U) has better cooling, but is otherwise similar, and is broadly the same price.
This is what I had in mind, and was close to ordering, but it has no AES-NI support either.

Their Q330G4 (Core i3-4005U) does have AES-NI support, but it comes with a £50 premium over the similar Q310G4 model.

Using @Chrys' hint about the N3150 having AES-NI support, I can see Qotom have a Q150 model series that uses it ... but it only comes with 2 LAN ports, whereas all the ones above have 4.

I don't really have a need for 4 ports at the moment. Is anyone actively using more than 2 ports at the moment?

Chunkers:

--- Quote from: WWWombat on May 09, 2017, 02:10:16 PM ---
I don't really have a need for 4 ports at the moment. Is anyone actively using more than 2 ports at the moment?

--- End quote ---

Mine is an AMD based board (APU2C4) which luckily enough is 64 bit and supports AES-NI but has 3 LAN ports, two are used for WAN so I just use a cheap switch ... works fine

As long as you have one port for LAN then I can't see an issue unless you are very tight on space

Chunks

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