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Reliable PowerEdge SC 440 comes to an end...

PatrickLee

Hello everyone

I have been running UTM on the Dell PowerEdge SC 440 for over 15yrs and it finally stop working.  Xfinity bumped my Internet speed to 800Mbps, so I thought it might be time for a new modem (Surfboard Board S33).  Shutting down the PowerEdge and replaced the modem and it never came back on....:((

Anyway, I've posted on here asking for hardware recommendation before about few months ago.  I was about to order from Aliexpress

TOPTON

Mini Router Intel Celeron J4125 Fanless Mini PC 4 Intel i211 LAN w/16GB DDR4 and 256GB SSD for around $300

As I am in need of a new HR, but it will take approx 30 days to ship from China.  Anyone recently order something similar from Amazon that is comparable, since I don't want to wait 30 days.  

Thanks in advance for any suggestions



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  • 0 in reply to Amodin

    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.

  • 0 in reply to PatrickLee

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

    OPNSense 64-bit | Intel Xeon 4-core v3 1225 3.20Ghz
    16GB Memory | 500GB SSD HDD | ATT Fiber 1GB
    (Former Sophos UTM Veteran, Former XG Rookie)

  • 0 in reply to Amodin

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

    Let me check.  I think this could be it.

  • 0 in reply to PatrickLee

    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

    OPNSense 64-bit | Intel Xeon 4-core v3 1225 3.20Ghz
    16GB Memory | 500GB SSD HDD | ATT Fiber 1GB
    (Former Sophos UTM Veteran, Former XG Rookie)

  • 0 in reply to PatrickLee

    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.  

  • 0 in reply to Varick Williams

    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.

  • 0 in reply to PatrickLee

    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.

    OPNSense 64-bit | Intel Xeon 4-core v3 1225 3.20Ghz
    16GB Memory | 500GB SSD HDD | ATT Fiber 1GB
    (Former Sophos UTM Veteran, Former XG Rookie)

  • 0 in reply to BAlfson

      

    Ironically I recently built another system with a i225v nic.  This was a z690 based motherboard (part of this deal, too good to pass up - https://www.microcenter.com/product/5005927/intel-core-i7-12700k,-asus-z690-plus-tuf-gaming-wifi-ddr4,-cpu-motherboard-combo ).

    Surprisingly the nic works just fine. The platform I experienced issues with (nic was rev 3) was amd based - both x570, and b550 with a 5700G cpu, under windows 10 (early q4 2021). Reports on reddit and elsewhere indicate the z590/690 (intel chipsets) is also prone to instability. Maybe this was remedied in win11. I haven't tried win10 on the above board. Maybe I will just to gain another data point. Also a good opportunity to see if UTM works with the i225v.

    No go with the z690 board w/ i225-v. In fact I couldn't even get the installer iso to boot.  Had to install proxmox, then pass through the nic. It shows up in lspci, but that's it. I think kernel 4.x or 5.x is needed to work with this board, at least in bare metal form. UTM still uising 3.x.

  • 0 in reply to Jay Jay

    If you are trying to get the Intel i225 nic to work with the UTM, it won't because the UTM is using Linux kernel 3.12.

    The Intel i225 needs Linux kernel 4.14. So no, the Intel i225 drivers are not included in kernel 3.12. Not even the XG has a linux kernel that supports the i225. I'm salivating at the mouth over the thought of upgrading to a fanless PC too, but unless they update the kernel to a newer version, it probably won't happen. 

  • 0 in reply to alan weir

    Virtualizing it would be my solution.

    UTM is running partially that way here.  Wan interface is a i211 in passthrough, but lan side is virtuio. Getting full line speeds (940/940 mbps) for wired and some wireless clients on internet speedtests.

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