Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On 09/23/2014 12:33 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: BTW - forgot to make some specific recommendations - I like this switch a lot: http://www.provantage.com/hewlett-packard-hp-j9803a-aba~7HEWN2JW.htm Oh - don't forget to get the firmware current on anything you get... Kurt It'd be odd to list 11(+) peo

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Kurt Buff
BTW - forgot to make some specific recommendations - I like this switch a lot: http://www.provantage.com/hewlett-packard-hp-j9803a-aba~7HEWN2JW.htm Oh - don't forget to get the firmware current on anything you get... Kurt On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Sorry about

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread J. Echter
Am 23.09.2014 19:56, schrieb Chris Bagnall: > On 23/9/14 6:46 pm, RB wrote: >> I'd suggest at least a managed switch that can do LACP. > > This. > > Given how small the price difference often is between unmanaged and > semi-managed (aka 'smart') switches these days, it just doesn't make > sense to

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Kurt Buff
HP Procurves are a good line of switches, and often come with a full lifetime warranty. I also like Juniper, but those tend to be more expensive, although often more capable than the HPs. It's my policy (as a networking professional) to *always* buy managed switches. Doing this can give you a grea

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Stefan Baur
Am 23.09.2014 um 20:56 schrieb Chris Bagnall: > Be careful which model you get. Some of the newer/cheaper ones that have > been sold as 'managed' recently don't have a web interface. They have > some horrible management application that uses Adobe Air, only works on > Windows, only communicates wit

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 23/9/14 7:44 pm, Espen Johansen wrote: A netgear pro switch Be careful which model you get. Some of the newer/cheaper ones that have been sold as 'managed' recently don't have a web interface. They have some horrible management application that uses Adobe Air, only works on Windows, only

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Espen Johansen
Just for the record. All the 3com stuff is actually huawei/3com (h3c) and afaik all the black switches are still that tech. 3600 5500 5700 5800 5900 7500 10500 series are all that and run a ios descendant from Huawei. And they rock if you bother to learn them. They are way better then the cisco equ

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Josh Reynolds
Interesting that I would see Ubiquiti pop up on this list. I am Josh_SPITwSPOTS on that forum... http://community.ubnt.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/108998 TheGUI and CLI are a mess. Thatsaid, they are stable, but if you don't need 24vpassive POE, and/or 802.3at/af, then the HP has better

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Bubb
I agree with the point that managed vs nonmanaged price difference is negligible so why not managed... Ubiquiti is worth a look for this application. The OS is nice to work with and has both CLI and GUI http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax/edgeswitch/ On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Adam Thompson wrote

Re: [pfSense] HPET timer issues?

2014-09-23 Thread Jim Pingle
On 9/23/2014 12:34 PM, Moshe Katz wrote: > 1. Has anyone else seen this behavior? The only HPET issue I'm aware of is on older versions of ESX where the clock would completely stop ticking. That's been patched for a long time now though. > 2. I haven't noticed any performance issues after the swi

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Adam Thompson
+1 for HP ProCurve, except for the stuff they inherited from 3Com... I've also had reasonably good luck with Netgear and D-Link managed switches. The Cisco SMB stuff seems OK hardware-wise, but the software is questionable. Note that all three of these options come with lifetime, free, firmware upd

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Josh Reynolds
The 1910's ARE rebranded 3com, but I found them to be very reliable. We are having good luck with the 2530's right now. Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer SPITwSPOTS, www.spitwspots.com On 09/23/2014 09:56 AM, Chris Bagnall wrote: On 23/9/14 6:46 pm, RB wrote:

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 23/9/14 6:46 pm, RB wrote: I'd suggest at least a managed switch that can do LACP. This. Given how small the price difference often is between unmanaged and semi-managed (aka 'smart') switches these days, it just doesn't make sense to buy unmanaged any more. You never know when things lik

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread RB
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Moshe Katz wrote: > If you don't need to do any fancy routing or VLAN stuff, just go on Amazon > or NewEgg and get the top-rated 16-port unmanaged gigabit switch. I would slightly disagree - note that it's a compute cluster and that the machines have dual NIC po

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread David Ross
On 9/23/14, 1:36 PM, Moshe Katz wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Kenward Vaughan mailto:kay_...@earthlink.net>> wrote: Sorry about the topic, but when I had asked a question before about trying to tie into a wireless network through a pfSense box, your answers to what turned o

Re: [pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Moshe Katz
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Sorry about the topic, but when I had asked a question before about trying > to tie into a wireless network through a pfSense box, your answers to what > turned out to be another OT question actually led our IS group to give me > full VPN

[pfSense] OT: Good network switch for 10 machines?

2014-09-23 Thread Kenward Vaughan
Sorry about the topic, but when I had asked a question before about trying to tie into a wireless network through a pfSense box, your answers to what turned out to be another OT question actually led our IS group to give me full VPN access to the outside world. I will be putting a pfSense box

[pfSense] HPET timer issues?

2014-09-23 Thread Moshe Katz
Hello all, Last night, I set up a new pfSense box running on what is either a Pentium Dual-Core or a Core 2 Duo (different software check identify it differently, for some reason) with a dual-port Intel (em) card. I was monitoring it, and I found that the CPU usage (percentage) never went below 5

Re: [pfSense] CARP-user

2014-09-23 Thread Vick Khera
I think you're confusing CARP with configuration sync to remote node. CARP works in the kernel and does not have a "user". The pfSync state sync also does not have a user. Only the config sync has a user. If you login with that user name on the backup node, can you perform all configuration actio

[pfSense] CARP-user

2014-09-23 Thread Martin Fuchs
Hi ! Does anyone have experience on CARP setup with a different user than "admin" ? Is there the possibility to create another user and use that for CARP ? I did not manage to get it working. Created user "CARPsync" with "admin" group-membership (and shell access) and set CARP up to us