2.5 years and Rangeley/Avoton is still the go-to solution for networking.
So much for Intel's accelerated Atom development.
Please help me decide on this.. C2558 Rangeley has 4 cores, and the C2758 has double up the cores up to 8.My goodness, that's ridonkulous! I'm paying about the same ($60 USD) for 50/5. It's crazy to hear what some people are able to get in some of the smaller countries. The US will always be relatively behind, we just have too much damn space!
Anyways, back to the OP, have you made a decision yet?
I fired away about a month ago and purchased the below for my pfSense build:
Supermicro C2558 Rangeley (2.4 ghz, 4-core, AES-NI and Quickassist enabled, 4 ports)
4gb ECC RAM (Had to go ECC here as non-ECC isnt supported on this board)
30GB mSata w/ 2.5in adapter
80W pico PSU and PS
M350 Mini-ITX Enclosure
Total cost = $380 USD
All parts from Amazon except board (Ebay $250) and RAM (Newegg $40)
A bit pricey for a Router/Firewall I know, but AES-NI was a must as I planned to move my traffic over VPN.
My only other cheaper AES-NI options were:
Netgate RCC-DFF 2220 System (1.7 ghz, dual core, 2 ports, AES-NI only) ($280) *Not yet available, date keeps getting moved back
and
Netgate RCC-VE 2440 System (same as above except 4 ports w/ Quickassist) ($350)
I figured I'd future proof myself a bit more for an extra 30-100 bucks. If you stretch that cost differential over an few years of blazing Routing and uber-Firewalling, then its worth it IMO.
I turned my old Netgear R7000 running DD-WRT into a WAP and was also able to use it as a managed switch to VLAN my guest/neighbor (we split bill) network.
So far, I've got my OpenVPN running both ways, getting my full 50/5 ISP speeds. I'm also running Snort and experimenting with a few other packages. The highest CPU utilization I've seen so far with everything running full blast is about 15-20%. And from what I understand, pfSense hasnt even implemented AES-NI w/ OpenVPN or anything with Quickassist yet!
So im feeling really good about my purchase and that I'll get many years out of this bad boy!
Please help me decide on this.. C2558 Rangeley has 4 cores, and the C2758 has double up the cores up to 8.
Also, there is a huge price deference between the two.
C2758 Rangeley >> $299
C2558 Rangeley >> $234
Right, that part has me a lot more confused than when I first researched this. On their website, they had numbers that very clearly hinted that Quickassist was being used - but it turns out support wasn't implemented yet?Which may or may not matter because QuickAssist may or may not be supported by pfSense anyway.
I know the pain...I've spent the last four hours crawling around the internets and am more confused than when I started.
clearly hinted that Quickassist was being used - but it turns out support wasn't implemented yet?
QOTOM-Q355G4 Quad Lan. CPU : Core i5 5250U Ram : 8GB Kingston DDR3LV 1600 LAN : 4 x Intel 211 Disk : 240G Toshiba Sata SSD
Any updates?