Re: [pfSense] WiFi with Compex WLE600VX card

2016-01-24 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Hi Alex

Am 24.01.2016 um 14:05 schrieb Alexander Hofmann:
[...]
> The device shows up as:
> none1@pci0:4:0:0:
> class=0x028000 card=0x chip=0x003c168c rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> but no device driver is associated with the device.
> 
> Does anyone of you know if this device is already supported by
> FreeBSD/pfSense and can give me a hint?

Doesn't seem to be even remotely supported by FreeBSD-CURRENT as of
writing. However a quick google search revealed this:
https://github.com/erikarn/otus/blob/master/otus/freebsd/src/sys/dev/athp/if_athp_pci.c

If Adrian Chadd's writing in the root of his git repository is still
up-to-date then it means that he is / was working at some time in late
2015 on updating some Qualcomm Atheros drivers and it happens that your
device at least gets mentioned there. I'm not into drivers and can't
tell you anything about the state.

> If not: do you know if this device will be supported in a future release?

*cough* talk Adrian into polishing / finishing the port *cough*, be his
guinea pig, send him a sample card if he hasn't that particular card at
hand. I'd say that FreeBSD owes a couple of not-so unimportant wireless
advancements to Adrian, so be nice to him. :-)

Other than that, you might check the pfSense FreBSD source tree which
contains the patches and backported drivers to see what cards are really
already supported.

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Re: [pfSense] SCVMM Agent

2016-01-09 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Hi,

Am 09.01.2016 um 18:47 schrieb Jim Thompson:
> We have an official image for Azure coming. 
> Should be available soon. We're in final stages with Microsoft. 
That's one thing, but the OP is asking about the SCVMM agent, that's
another (additional thing) on top of Hyper-V integration services.
I don't use SCVMM, was able to get a hold on the install ISO and check a
bit against the documentation for SCVMM 2012 R2.

>From what I saw the Linux scvmmagent installer archives it contains have
some scripts looking for /bin/bash and at least one binary called
scvmmagent.bin which definitely is compiled for Linux, not FreeBSD. The
scripts seem to look for some some (Linux) distro-specific locations,
nothing mendionted about FreeBSD.

pfSense neither ships bash, nor linux.ko for Linux ABI compatibility
etc. In contrast to the Hyper-V integration stuff these bits are
definitely closed source and available to those with a license for SCVMM.

Maybe ESF has possibilities to work with MS, but I doubt that MS are
already working on supporting FreeBSD with SCVMM. I also doubt that ESF
would be very happy to ship linux.ko + linux_base + bash (+ maybe else +
some hackeries) with pfSense just for this one agent.

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Re: [pfSense] github.com/google/google-authenticator/ on pfSense 2.2x

2015-10-13 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Hi

Am 13.10.2015 um 14:30 schrieb Olivier Mascia:
> I guess I first need to setup a development environment en BSD, then I should 
> be flying?

Seems to build here (simply following the instructions, without testing)
Ideally by getting a FreeBSD (virtual) machine running the same or
closest-to what pfSense's base is. That would be like FreeBSD 10.2.

> Are there some recommended guidelines for porting and debugging (if needed) 
> things to the specific BSD environment of pfSense 2.2x?

It seems that a port actually exists already:
https://www.freshports.org/security/pam_google_authenticator/

See if it's in an updated and working shape for your usage, you
can likely install it from the binary packages repo, otherwise if you
need to tweak it (it last updated 2014), consider the porters handbook.

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[pfSense] Question on WiFi frequency change

2015-07-28 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Hi there

I've an ALIX board still doing its daily routing job on pfSense 2.2.4
where a MiniPCI card serves as simple AP. I recently swapped out the
Atheros 802.11abg card for an AR9220-based Compex WLM200NX while I was
upgrading to a faster CF card. Almost all settings from the previous
card were imported properly (almost) all I had to select was the
channel/frequency.

What happened was, that the card came up on the selected 5GHz channel,
but since I had a (single) 2.4GHz client I had to switch back to 2.4Ghz
for now.

Now I realized that the card, even after applying the (several
different) frequency settings, it stayed on the first 5GHz channel when
checking ifconfig's output. The channel switching got applied after I
had rebooted pfSense.

Could anyone with a miniPCI(e) card confirm this behaviour?
- Get a console on your pfSense box and get the output of ifconfig
  where for athX_wlanX you can see the current channel.
- In the UI switch to another frequency (maybe 2.4 - 5 like myself)
  and apply the settings
- Check the output of ifconfig again

I'd be interested to know what you're seeing.

Thanks,
Mat

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Re: [pfSense] [SOLVED] Re: Captive portal and RADIUS authentication

2014-07-11 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Hi Nicola

Am 11.07.2014 11:04, schrieb Nicola Ferrari (#554252):
 OK, now it's working with NDS Radius on Win2008R2 and radius settings
 directly in Captive Portal.
 
 I think the problem was simply a too strong/too long shared secret
 with non standard characters such as @, commas and others...
 maybe encoding problems??
Very likely, even on other environemts it happens that the supplicant
doesn't handle encoding as you'd expect. - Some OS X versions had issues
with special characters as well an users were unable to connect via WiFi
unless they removed those special characters from their passwords.

Glad to hear you worked out a solution for your environment and thanks
for sharing your howto with NPS and pfSense captive portal. :-)

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Re: [pfSense] Captive portal and RADIUS authentication

2014-07-10 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Hi Nicola

Am 10.07.2014 12:31, schrieb Nicola Ferrari (#554252):
 I tried to config the internal freeradius2 package with ldap to
 interface with the win2008ad, but it doesn't seem to work.
Because it cannot verify passwords in LDAP as AD doesn't store passwords
in plaintext which is what FreeRADIUS would do against a LDAP server. If
you have a standalone RADIUS server on BSD/Linux you have to use Samba
and let FreeRADIUS check the passwords with 'ntlm_auth', which is part
of Samba.

I guess Brian is using FreeRADIUS locally with a local user database,
that should work as is.

Since FR with AD is one of the most-asked questions on, the FR
developers have made pretty comprehensive howtos for that precise
use-case. (freeradius.org wiki and Alan Dekok's deployingradius.com)

I don't thinkg installing a full-blown Samba on pfSense is what you want
(there is no binary Samba package for pfSense either)

 could you please explain me your config?

I guess since if you have an NPS up and running that it's better to try
this route. Are you positive that you entered the hostname or IP, port
and shared secret in Service: Captive portal: yourcaptiveportal?

I'm asking since youre initial error message with PAP told you so.

You mention configuring RADIUS in User management - Servers. In my
understanding this can be used for admin access, VPN etc, but captive
portal is independent. That's why there are the fields in the captive
portal to use RADIUS and then place to put the IP/port/shared secret.

In fact I configured a pfSense box to authenticate admins against an
existing AD so they don't get used to login as root. (and if someone
breaks things we know who it was, not just admin/root) - and that was
simply by using LDAP authentication, not extra RADIUS required in this case.

Hope that helps a little

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Re: [pfSense] pkg_add

2014-07-09 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Hi Martin

Am 09.07.2014 16:30, schrieb Martin Fuchs:

 Is there a possibility to install a package from the ports tree for testing
 purposes ?
Just a search away... (1)

Technically yes but not directly from the base OS, you'll need a FreeBSD
8.3 machine to build packages for. Remember that pfSense 2.1 is based on
8.3 and that current ports tree has removed support for this FreeBSD
release. You'll have to use an older version of the ports tree.
Read more here in the forums(2) concerning this topic.

 Somethink like pkg_add or else ?
Also a search away... (3)

pkg_add is available right in the base OS. However again: pkg_tools will
be phased out this year too in favour of pkg-ng(4).

pfSense 2.1 is a quite nicely update-date-patched 8.3 but but the base
is aging. That is why 2.2 is going to be based on 10.x :-) Currently no
pkg-ng is inside pfSense base system.

Be cautious with it (i.e. installing things that depend on openssl from
ports, as some software inside the base OS does use OpenSSL from ports
located in /usr/local/ (i.e. OpenVPN).

If you overwrite it with your own it will likely break things in the
base OS.

-- Mathieu

(1) https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Can_I_use_FreeBSD_ports_with_pfSense
(2) https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=77406.0
(3) https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installing_FreeBSD_Packages
(4)
http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2014/02/03/time-to-bid-farewell-to-the-old-pkg_-tools/

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Re: [pfSense] Thermal Sensors

2014-06-02 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)

Am 02.06.2014 10:33, schrieb Ulrik Lunddahl:
 Are you running pfSense as a VM?
 
 In that case you will not be able to, as HOST hardware instrumentations is 
 not propagated to VM's.
Yup, the OP he won't be able to if this is the case, for physical
installation pfSense there is something we the OP should be able to do.

I haven't read through the results of last-month's thread on this
machine, anyhow for physical installation of pfSense...

 What's the trick to get the thermal sensors to work on pfSense? I'm using a 
 power edge 2850 and they clearly show up in VMWare 4.1
Magical google search words: pfSense sensors ;-)

See: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/What_Hardware_Monitoring_Is_Supported

In short: You should be able to get the CPU thermal sensor shown in the
UI, for this enable loading the coretemp (Intel CPUs) module in Systems
- Advanced - Miscellaneous.

However when it comes to ACPI or IPMI sensors, well then it's more about
luck if you can get them working / if FreeBSD understands your hardware.
(As the docs page states). You might want to more specifically search on
FreeBSD list/forum archives.

(AFAIK) FreeBSD still doesn't have an equivalent to Linux lm-sensors or
OpenBSD's sensorsd(8)

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Re: [pfSense] apu.4c silently dies

2014-05-19 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Hi mayak

 Many roads lead to ... gut says SSD - I'd try running off CD first.
Seems apu1.4c (guess that's what you meant) has a SATA port, now you
only need to get find way for powering a desktop CD/DVD drive (i.e.
spare ATX power supply)

 On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:15 PM, mayak ma...@australsat.com wrote:
 
 hi all,

 i have a new apu.4c with a Kingston SSD

 unit will run sometimes for days, or sometimes for several hours, before
 becoming unresponsive:

 - no mac response from ethernet cards
 - serial console dies -- no errors displayed
Have you actually left serial console attached and kept logging
the output? I did that once with a whacky but important network switch
since syslog didn't give enough info. (i.e. tools like PuTTY can log
output to a text file)

 - no errors in system log
 - no crash report on reboot
Another idea would be to set up remote syslog logging so you can
possibly store more data off the device than is staying within the
circular logging on the box.

 what is the best approach to finding out what is happening?
Ideally if someone knows how to set up serial crash console, but I'm not
enough knowledgable in this area :-\

-- Mathieu

P.S. I don't know if that makes any difference but it seems PC Engines
is still labeling APU's BIOS as beta so you might want to check out
(http://pcengines.ch/apu1c4.htm)
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Re: [pfSense] supermicro A1SRI-2758F-O igb0: Could not setup recieve structures

2014-05-12 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Hi Kevin

Am 12.05.2014 08:37, schrieb Kevin Boatswain:
 Has anyone that recently build or purchased the supermicro 2758 (Rangley)
 seen these errors before?
 
 This box would be somewhat identical to what is sold in the pfsense store
 and netgate minus the support and custom tuning,
 
 http://store.netgate.com/Firewall/C2758.aspx
 
 http://store.pfsense.org/c2758/
 
 
 
 I seem to get the message *igb0: Could not setup recieve structures*
  multiple times on my LAN interface.
 
 I found this case documented here as a bug for the igb driver but it has
 been marked as resolve and is over three years old so didnt figure it was
 still a problem.
 
 https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1221
I've seen such errors on a system with quad i350 NICs where I could only
enable 2 out of 4 ports if I remember correctly. Have you tried the
loader.conf.local changes as reference in the bug tracker?

Also see the wiki on this topic:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting_Network_Cards

If you have built it yourself you don't a Netgate-flavoured but vanilla
image, the images on Netgate appliances (as Jim T. mentioned once on the
list) contain some pre-tuning in order to run pfSense smoothly
out-of-the-box.

The tuning is specific per system which is why it isn't applied to the
standard image.

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Re: [pfSense] Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad Port PCI-e Gigabit Ethernet

2014-05-10 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)


Am 10.05.2014 00:34, schrieb Chris Bagnall:
 On 9 May 2014, at 23:25, Dave Warren da...@hireahit.com wrote:
 I'm looking on eBay as well, it's worth the gamble vs buying new.
 
 Not pfSense-specific, but I've used quite a few from eBay (both dual and quad 
 port cards) in generic FreeBSD installs and not had a problem with them.
 
 As others have said, they're so cheap (by comparison to new prices) on eBay 
 that it's a gamble worth taking.

Those cards were launched between 7-9 years back ago and some of the
models are now EoL-ed by Intel, the servers that had them installed are
now aged too, that's why they become easily available.
(look at http://ark.intel.com/)

A more modern I350-T4 uses less power (5 instead of 12W for the PT quad)
and has some fancy virtualization features. Other than that - solid and
almost-never failing cards.

HCL: If it's listed it means a someone reported it was actually working
with FreeBSD. Sometimes you can find about it when searching for the
network controller on the card. pfSense 2.1.1+ ships with quite recent
Intel NIC drivers, even I210 (2013) are supported.

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Re: [pfSense] HP DL160 for pfSense in a datacenter

2014-04-23 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Am 23.04.2014 15:24, schrieb Erik Anderson:
 On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:14 AM, mayak ma...@australsat.com wrote:
 The machine has one of those stupid raid chips that works for software
 raid -- pfSense knows about these kinds of cards, but nonetheless, I
 would like to make this machine as bullet proof as possible (in terms of
 disk failure).
 
 You're not going to want to hear this, but...
 
 ...purchase a real hardware RAID card. FakeRAID cards are horrible,
 and I'd never trust them for something as critical as a
 firewall/router device. You don't need anything fancy - you should be
 able to source a used RAID controller for a very reasonable price.

Unfortunately you don't tell us what controller (dmesg ?) it is nor the
 DL160's generation (G6, G7...). Some of those lower-end rackserver are
able to run in plain AHCI (if SATA) or SAS HBA-mode (i.e. LSI's in
IT-mode).

If that is possible you may just go with that and install pfSense on a
geom mirror. The installer should (if I remember right) have such an option.

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Re: [pfSense] Netgate's customized pfSense release

2014-02-13 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)


Am 13.02.2014 17:54, schrieb Andrew Hull:
 [...] I've noticed that the pfSense pre-install image was
 customized with Netgate branding and the firmware auto-update mechanism
 was set to a Netgate URL.
 
 Has this been discussed on the list before?
I don't think often for what I can remember.
 
 My knee jerk reaction is that this is A Bad Thing(tm), and I reloaded
 the devices with images from ESF. Does anyone here have a strong opinion
 one way or the other?

No worries, that's how open source works, and in case of the BSD license
there are are almost all liberties to do derivative products, as long as
you follow minimal rules and trademark (pfSense and the logo are
trademarks of ESF). Netgate allows you to run what image you like, other
(non pfSense) appliance vendors are way less nice :-)

Common guess: Beyond branding, their images may contain pre-done tuning
for the hardware that makes it perform at its best without extra user
intervention. In comparison, at one place I have a 3-letter brand server
running pfSense and I had to spend some time on loader.conf.local and
tunings to make all NICs work and work good (props to ESF staff who
assisted).

Quick history:
BSD Perimeter moved from Kentucky (in 2012) to Texas and reinstated as
ESF. Jim Thompson from Netgate (also Texas) got involved with ESF, he is
actually active in both companies.

That may explain why Netgate is permitted to redistribute modifed images
without the need to rename the resulting product binaries or replacing
the logos. (Jim, correct me I'm writing this out of my memory, I
remember there was once a post or a mailing list discussion)

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Re: [pfSense] Recent FreeBSD Security Vulnerabilities

2014-01-20 Thread Mathieu Simon (Lists)
Hi

In Addition to Moshe's answer, they're working hard on fixing a couple
of bugs that were detected in 2.1 as well as including the FreeBSD
advisories where applicable, read:

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.1.1_New_Features_and_Changes

and follow the discussion in the Development and Documentation section
of the forum.

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