Re: [pfSense] Network freezes on IBM x3550, Broadcom NICs

2012-06-29 Thread Adam Thompson
You're largely correct, pfSense has - sometimes - issues with Broadcom NICs. If you search the mailing list archives and the bug tracker you'll see a number of reports/complaints. Many of these issues have been fixed since the 1.x era, but there are still occasional compatibility issues. The NIC

Re: [pfSense] Network freezes on IBM x3550, Broadcom NICs

2012-06-29 Thread jerome alet
Hi, From: Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net You're largely correct, pfSense has - sometimes - issues with Broadcom NICs. If you search the mailing list archives and the bug tracker you'll see a number of reports/complaints. Many of these issues

[pfSense] Block Tor Exit Nodes

2012-06-29 Thread Giles Coochey
Hi, Is there a package that would allow me to block Tor exit nodes? Thanks -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [pfSense] Odd CARP Question

2012-06-29 Thread Tim Nelson
- Original Message - I guess you could tcp dump on the sync interface. Or set the advertise frequency to something really high. If it switches to slave there is somewhere a higher priorised slave which became master. However a lot people are running CARP VIP's simply to get a

Re: [pfSense] supermicro SOL console

2012-06-29 Thread Vick Khera
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jim Pingle li...@pingle.org wrote: Use /boot/loader.conf.local - that won't get overwritten. The other two will. Based on this, my revised configuration is to create /boot/loader.conf.local: hint.uart.2.at=isa hint.uart.2.port=0x3E8 hint.uart.2.flags=0x10

Re: [pfSense] Network freezes on IBM x3550, Broadcom NICs

2012-06-29 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Paul Gear p...@gear.dyndns.org wrote: Server hardware: IBM x3550, Xeon E5405 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 2 x 300 GB 10K RPM SAS HD in hardware RAID 1, 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) About two weeks ago I had to put into production a temporary hacked

Re: [pfSense] supermicro SOL console

2012-06-29 Thread Adam Thompson
One thing... SuperMicro IPMI BMCs should redirect COM1 if the internal connections are cabled properly... in which case the standard Embedded distro would work properly. Otherwise, what you're doing is identical to running an embedded system with 3 ordinary COM ports, and having the console on