Reliable PowerEdge SC 440 comes to an end...

Patrick, have you looked at the most-recent pages of the *Unofficial* Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)?

Cheers - Bob

I have Bob.  Just checking to see if anyone has ordered anything newer or latest that works with UTM.  It seems a lot of Qotom on Amazon comes with Intel i225-V instead of Intel i211.  Do you know if the LAN card Intel i225 is supported?  Do you recommend quad or dual for multiple active devices?

Thanks

I don't have a clue, Patrick.

Jay Jay commented about it a coupla months ago: https://community.sophos.com/utm-firewall/f/general-discussion/136334/5-upload-speed-on-sophos-utm/505384#505384

I found that by googling site:community.sophos.com/utm-firewall intel i225 v

Cheers - Bob

Thanks Bob

Intel Corporation 82571EB are really good.  i210 are good.  Stay away from i217-LM, they literally make UTM have a seizure with the connection (up and down every second).

Not a fan of the i225, and of course, anything Realtek, avoid at all costs.

"Stay away from i217-LM, they literally make UTM have a seizure with the connection (up and down every second)."....:understood

The box I just ordered comes with i225 no choice.  What's your experience with i225 may I ask?

Personally, I think that they don't perform well and have hardware issues coming out of the factory.  Intel, I believe created three revisions of that hardware, and I think it's the third revision (B3) that is worry-free.  Problem is, they have a LOT of the first two revisions integrated into motherboards out there, and there is ample supply of them still around.  If you have the third revision on that board, you should be fine, but they were littered with hardware flaws and issues that created disconnects, packet loss, etc.

Personally, I think that they don't perform well and have hardware issues coming out of the factory.  Intel, I believe created three revisions of that hardware, and I think it's the third revision (B3) that is worry-free.  Problem is, they have a LOT of the first two revisions integrated into motherboards out there, and there is ample supply of them still around.  If you have the third revision on that board, you should be fine, but they were littered with hardware flaws and issues that created disconnects, packet loss, etc.

Thank you so much for posting the third revision (B3).  I was able to confirm the system comes with

4 x Intel i225-V B3.2.5G Ethernet.

Thanks again

Nice!  Can you link here what it is you are purchasing?  I'd like to see the system.  I'm in the market for a decent VM server; this might give me some ideas.  I like the SuperMicro stuff, but they are pricey and some of their NICs don't play well with UTM or XG - not because of the hardware, but because no one wants to address the NIC Linux drivers.

https://www.amazon.com/MOGINSOK-Firewall-Appliance-Ethernet-Barebone/dp/B09WYQZMYB/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Qotom%2BJ4125&qid=1667075636&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI0LjA4IiwicXNhIjoiMi4xNSIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&refinements=p_n_feature_fourteen_browse-bin%3A2057441011%2Cp_76%3A1249137011%2Cp_n_operating_system_browse-bin%3A7817221011&rnid=562215011&rps=1&s=pc&sr=1-1&th=1

I purchase from Amazon because of the quick delivery 2 days as opposed to 30 days from other vendors.

It seems I'm stuck during the installation.  The installation aborted because it did not detect the NIC.  

The box came pre-installed with PFsense.  I read somewhere the BIOS need to change in order for Sophos to recognize the NIC.

It isn't a UEFI bios, is it?  Because Sophos doesn't install on that mode, it still has to be legacy mode.

your response just gave me a lightbulb.......

Let me check.  I think this could be it.

Oof, well I hope that's not the case if you want to use Sophos.  Hopefully, it's just a BIOS update you need.  Otherwise, looks like it's a PFSense box. :D

Did this work for you? I have the exact same HW and the install still cannot detect the NIC with the Bios set to legacy.  I really do not want to go to pfsense or return this box for 1GBE model.  

no it did not.  I've worked with their tech engineer and he attempted to install UTM and couldn't get it to work.  I ended up returning it.

Most likely a Linux driver problem.  It's in the 5.8 kernel for Linux, but reading on this card, it's not just UTM that doesn't see the NIC - it's even Linux Mint 20 that doesn't see it.  I'd frankly be surprised if Sophos ever updates UTM with a Linux kernel.