[pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle?

2012-04-24 Thread Stefan Baur
Hi list, I just stumbled over a few posts mentioning the scheduled 2.1 release of pfSense on June 6, 2012. This has made me wonder: Is there any centralized resource (ordinary web page, wiki, whatever) where one can review what Microsoft would call the product support lifecycle of pfSense?

Re: [pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle?

2012-04-24 Thread Seth Mos
Op 24-4-2012 9:13, Stefan Baur schreef: Hi list, The thing is, I rolled out 2.0.1 (upgrading from 1.2.3) between November 2011 and February 2012, IIRC. I'd prefer to stay on 2.0.1 for a while, as I don't need the IPv6 features of 2.1 just yet. I'm just wondering how long after June 6, 2012

Re: [pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle?

2012-04-24 Thread Stefan Baur
Am 24.04.2012 09:32, schrieb Chris Buechler: Nothing formal. To date, once we put out a new release, all prior releases will not get any updates. That will probably especially be true going forward, with much shorter release cycles than we had from 1.2.3 to 2.0, and much fewer changes, hence

Re: [pfSense] pfSense 2.0.1 crashes (Alix 2d13)

2012-04-24 Thread Pim van Stam
On 23 apr. 2012, at 19:28, Ernst den Broeder wrote: Hi All. I am trying to work through a kernel crash I keep having with pfSense 2.0.1 on Alix 2d13 hardware (my home router). This has been going on for about 3-4 weeks now. The crash happens about every 2 days, but it varies. Some

Re: [pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle?

2012-04-24 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Stefan Baur newsgroups.ma...@stefanbaur.de wrote: Am 24.04.2012 09:32, schrieb Chris Buechler: Nothing formal. To date, once we put out a new release, all prior releases will not get any updates. That will probably especially be true going forward, with much

Re: [pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle?

2012-04-24 Thread Gerald A
Hi, On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Stefan Baur newsgroups.ma...@stefanbaur.de wrote: Am 24.04.2012 09:20, schrieb Seth Mos: There's a lot of other fixes unrelated to IPv6 in 2.1 that you'll find which you will probably like. Well, I'm sure you've heard of never change a running

Re: [pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle?

2012-04-24 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Stefan Baur newsgroups.ma...@stefanbaur.de wrote: Uh, don't get me wrong, I'm all for timely updates that fix security issues.  I just don't want to drag fancy stuff along that I don't need.  And at present, that's what full IPv6 support is for me. Which will

Re: [pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle?

2012-04-24 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Gerald A geraldabli...@gmail.com wrote: Lots of commercial firewall makers make updates to their firmware or loads which they expect you to load on as soon as you can. With those, you get a combo of security, bug fixes and features which may or may not be

Re: [pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle?

2012-04-24 Thread Gerald A
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Stefan Baur newsgroups.ma...@stefanbaur.de wrote: Am 24.04.2012 10:50, schrieb Gerald A: Uh, don't get me wrong, I'm all for timely updates that fix security issues. I just don't want to drag fancy stuff along that I don't need. And at present, that's

Re: [pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle?

2012-04-24 Thread k_o_l
From: list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 4:41 AM To: pfSense support and discussion Subject: Re: [pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle? On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Stefan Baur

Re: [pfSense] pfSense 2.0.1 crashes (Alix 2d13)

2012-04-24 Thread Ernst den Broeder
On 4/24/2012 4:11 AM, Pim van Stam wrote: On 23 apr. 2012, at 19:28, Ernst den Broeder wrote: Hi All. I am trying to work through a kernel crash I keep having with pfSense 2.0.1 on Alix 2d13 hardware (my home router). This has been going on for about 3-4 weeks now. The crash happens about

Re: [pfSense] pf versus Juniper

2012-04-24 Thread Victor Pasten
- Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net escribió: You can't really compare them directly. Sure, on paper there are a lot of common points, but the approach is so radically different, a comparison point-by-point would merely be misleading. If I had to draw analogies, I'd say pfSense is

[pfSense] :Different Captive Portal on each Vlan/subnet implementaion

2012-04-24 Thread NorthPole
Hello everyone, I have a pfsense with 4 vlans on 2 nics. The goal is that the user gets served a different captive portal depending on which vlan he came from. I managed to do this making each vlan a different subnet and uploading a captive portal which would redirect to the appropriate pages

Re: [pfSense] pfSense product support lifecycle?

2012-04-24 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:56 AM, k_o_l k_...@hotmail.com wrote: Don't you have a way to track which release is being used the most and tailor support accordingly We don't have any means of knowing. Besides, that ultimately wouldn't impact anything. I have little doubt there are tens of