This is a bit hopeful, but does anyone have any experience with Intel Security / McAfee network appliances? There doesn't seem to be a lot (well, any) information on the web about how they are put together. In particular I am trying to find information / reverse engineer the front network ports.
I picked up a McAfee NS5200 from a disposals company cheap and it's a 1U rackmount device with Intel S2600CW2R motherboard (E5-2620v3 & 2x8GB DDR4) with a huge funky network board up front that I can't make sense of. An Intel PCIe x16 card is fitted (silkscreened 'Intel greenlite', 2 mystery chips and a huge solid copper heatsink) which spits out an SFF-8087 cable to the network board (silkscreened 'Intel Security ASSY500-1178-01'), which also has connections from the motherboard serial and LPC busses. The network board exposes a pair of 10GbE SFP+ but there is also 8x GbE and 12x SFP ports with bypass relays, I'd like to be able to use the latter 2 if possible.
The chassis covered the VGA & RMM4 management ports, so a few minutes with a dremel and these are now revealed and I get video output. I've not investigated the original linux based OS yet, but I've dumped out the PCI devices from a Linux USB stick, those on the network board are:
I can identify the PES24T6G2 switch and the Xilinx Spartan 6 device, but the remaining chips have heatsinks very well adhered to them so not sure what they are and I don't really want to risk removing the sinks. The broadcom devices are a bit of a mystery, as only the Intel 82599 show under Linux.
I don't understand what the mystery card is doing - I guess it's converting & sending PCIe over the SAS cable to the daughterboard and into the switch, but I don't understand why it's necessary to do this vs just a passive cable. It appears to be a very well built board so it would be a shame not to be able to use all the bells and whistles on it.
Images at NS5200
Thanks
I picked up a McAfee NS5200 from a disposals company cheap and it's a 1U rackmount device with Intel S2600CW2R motherboard (E5-2620v3 & 2x8GB DDR4) with a huge funky network board up front that I can't make sense of. An Intel PCIe x16 card is fitted (silkscreened 'Intel greenlite', 2 mystery chips and a huge solid copper heatsink) which spits out an SFF-8087 cable to the network board (silkscreened 'Intel Security ASSY500-1178-01'), which also has connections from the motherboard serial and LPC busses. The network board exposes a pair of 10GbE SFP+ but there is also 8x GbE and 12x SFP ports with bypass relays, I'd like to be able to use the latter 2 if possible.
The chassis covered the VGA & RMM4 management ports, so a few minutes with a dremel and these are now revealed and I get video output. I've not investigated the original linux based OS yet, but I've dumped out the PCI devices from a Linux USB stick, those on the network board are:
Code:
05:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Microsemi / PMC / IDT PES24T6G2 PCI Express Gen2 Switch [111d:806e] (rev 02)
06:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Microsemi / PMC / IDT PES24T6G2 PCI Express Gen2 Switch [111d:806e] (rev 02)
06:02.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Microsemi / PMC / IDT PES24T6G2 PCI Express Gen2 Switch [111d:806e] (rev 02)
06:03.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Microsemi / PMC / IDT PES24T6G2 PCI Express Gen2 Switch [111d:806e] (rev 02)
06:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Microsemi / PMC / IDT PES24T6G2 PCI Express Gen2 Switch [111d:806e] (rev 02)
06:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Microsemi / PMC / IDT PES24T6G2 PCI Express Gen2 Switch [111d:806e] (rev 02)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries Device [14e4:b151] (rev 01)
07:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries Device [14e4:b151] (rev 01)
08:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: Xilinx Corporation Default PCIe endpoint ID [10ee:0007]
0c:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Backplane Connection [8086:10f8] (rev 01)
0c:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82599 10 Gigabit Dual Port Backplane Connection [8086:10f8] (rev 01)
I don't understand what the mystery card is doing - I guess it's converting & sending PCIe over the SAS cable to the daughterboard and into the switch, but I don't understand why it's necessary to do this vs just a passive cable. It appears to be a very well built board so it would be a shame not to be able to use all the bells and whistles on it.
Images at NS5200
Thanks
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