Re: [pfSense-discussion] Everything else sucks

2006-03-10 Thread Scott Ullrich
Fresh out of the oven: http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/RELENG_1_SNAPSHOT_03-10-2006/ On 3/11/06, Randy B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've spent the last month making a grand tour of the firewall world - > tried everything from IPCop to Smoothwall, a fully-licensed PIX-515E > from work to m0n0w

[pfSense-discussion] Everything else sucks

2006-03-10 Thread Randy B
I've spent the last month making a grand tour of the firewall world - tried everything from IPCop to Smoothwall, a fully-licensed PIX-515E from work to m0n0wall, and I still come back to pfSense. Not only is this my hobby, I oversee a flock of ~70 PIXen & FWSMs at work every day. There's just not

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense merge with freebsd?

2006-03-10 Thread Chris Buechler
DarkFoon wrote: What about that jumpering thing, though? I've never done it, but I believe that hard codes the drive's limit to some fixed number, and I don't know that software can work around that fixed number. Regardless, the chance of actually using 300 GB on a machine that old is esse

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense merge with freebsd?

2006-03-10 Thread Jonathan Woodard
"You can try "dangerously dedicated mode" - now under the "wizzard"-mode in the fdisk-editor, where you create the partitions. But I guess any 75$ PC from ebay will correctly detect and work with a 300 GB disk nowadays. Is your time worth so little?" I have been in your situation before wh

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense merge with freebsd?

2006-03-10 Thread Alex DiMarco
DarkFoon wrote: FreeNAS sounds like a neat idea, unfortunately it's not quite what I had in mind for this backup computer. I was going to write a cron job for this computer so that every night (or maybe once a week) it would turn on(the BIOS has an auto-boot function), and use smbtar to grab all

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense merge with freebsd?

2006-03-10 Thread DarkFoon
FreeNAS sounds like a neat idea, unfortunately it's not quite what I had in mind for this backup computer. I was going to write a cron job for this computer so that every night (or maybe once a week) it would turn on(the BIOS has an auto-boot function), and use smbtar to grab all of the files from

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense merge with freebsd?

2006-03-10 Thread Rainer Duffner
DarkFoon wrote: So the question is, if I jumper the drive to limit it to 32GB so the darn computer will actually boot (the BIOS freezes detecting the drive), can I get FreeBSD to recognize all 300GB? I probably should check the FreeBSD man pages, but being as ill as I am right now, I feel like a