[pfSense Support] Appliance support
Hello, I know pfSense has it's Embedded edition/setup, but I have a bit of a predicament. I have an architecture-wise plain x86 PC but which does not have a keyboard, video, NOR a COM port. Without any way to give input to the device I can't configure pfSense. What would work really nicely is if pfSense would just pick the LAN and WAN interfaces for me, without input, and if I need to I can adjust them through the webUI. This would save a whole lot of hassle in general anway, I think with having to initially configure. I know the WRAP and SOEKRIS boards are out-of-the-box ready but it seems like some simple code to look at the available interfaces and simply enable the first found as the LAN (optionally the second as the WAN) and off you go. For reference this is a Toshiba Magnia SG20 with an fxp0 and also an re0 directly connected to a built-in 8-port Ethernet switch (with a PC Card-slot, too). Are there plans to support this (a no external-input/appliance device)? I'm currently struggling with how to manually change the config to match the NICs in the box -- a time consuming process. Should I submit a feature request to Redmine or some other process? Thanks, - Jesse P.S. Please reply-all as I subscribe to the digest and may not immediately see replys. Thanks. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] Appliance support
Chris Buechler wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Jesse Petersonjesse.peter...@exbiblio.com wrote: Hello, I know pfSense has it's Embedded edition/setup, but I have a bit of a predicament. I have an architecture-wise plain x86 PC but which does not have a keyboard, video, NOR a COM port. Without any way to give input to the device I can't configure pfSense. No extremely simple way to accomplish this. Best is to install with the medium (HD, CF) in another box that does have keyboard/video or serial, after install go to a command prompt and edit /cf/conf/config.xml to manually replace the interfaces as desired, save changes, rm /tmp/config.cache, shut down, transfer HD/CF, you're set. If it has a USB port, I think it's possible to pick up the config off a FAT formatted USB flash drive (at least with the live CD, not sure about full or embedded). You can open a feature request at redmine.pfsense.org if you'd like. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org Also, the embedded instances of pfSense don't come out-of-the-box ready either. You still need to attach a serial cable and do the initial configuration. This is as it should be. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] Appliance support
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Gary Buckmasterg...@centipedenetworks.com wrote: Also, the embedded instances of pfSense don't come out-of-the-box ready either. You still need to attach a serial cable and do the initial configuration. This is as it should be. Last time I set up an embedded (1.2.2 on my home router) I booted the device, reset the DHCP lease on my desktop and connected to 192.168.1.1 and configured it by reloading the config file. No serial port required, even though I do have one hooked up. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
RE: [pfSense Support] Appliance support
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Gary Buckmasterg...@centipedenetworks.com wrote: Also, the embedded instances of pfSense don't come out-of-the-box ready either. You still need to attach a serial cable and do the initial configuration. This is as it should be. Last time I set up an embedded (1.2.2 on my home router) I booted the device, reset the DHCP lease on my desktop and connected to 192.168.1.1 and configured it by reloading the config file. No serial port required, even though I do have one hooked up. [Christopher Iarocci] His config does not fit one of the embedded systems, so his NIC cards won't even be set up to do what you did via DHCP. The embedded images have that portion pre-done so you can do that. He needs to be able to interact with that first step of configuring the NIC cards. Doing it by manually editing the config is the only real option. I had to do that when I put the full version on my Soekris board. I installed to a regular computer, then changed the interface to COM port. He will need to do the same thing, except change it to USB. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
Re: [pfSense Support] Appliance support
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Vick Kheravi...@khera.org wrote: Last time I set up an embedded (1.2.2 on my home router) I booted the device, reset the DHCP lease on my desktop and connected to 192.168.1.1 and configured it by reloading the config file. No serial port required, even though I do have one hooked up. Depends on what hardware you're using. Up to 1.2.2, the default was for WRAP/4801, with sis0 as LAN and sis1 as WAN in the default config. That's changed to vr0/vr1 in 1.2.3. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
