Re: [pfSense] looking for perfect pfsense box for home?

I can only second what everyone else has said... If cheap is 'best', grab any old box and throw some NICs in it. Downsides of this approach are power consumption and the associated 'mostly works' weirdness of used hardware. I've found a 4 port j1900 board in a case with rack mount brackets that I

Re: [pfSense] Question about OpenVPN Point-to-Multi-Point Setup

I've got both ipsec and OpenVPN setup on different networks. I was doing IPSec initially, and found it relatively straightforward to setup per pfSense documentation. OpenVPN came along when we added mobile users. OpenVPN was way easier to setup for branch offices + moblie users. If you won't

Re: [pfSense] Question about OpenVPN Point-to-Multi-Point Setup

David, I am by no means an expert, but am piping up to speak to the quality of the documentation. Just follow the OpenVPN site to site docs, and you should be good. The tricky bit for me was realizing that the OpenVPN tunnels rely on their own IP space, independent of whatever your regular netwo

Re: [pfSense] 2.2.1 Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Connection Instability

Yes. I have 5 sites (of various 2.0+ pfsense) connected via IPSec. Historically, this setup was the definition of stable. Since adding a 2.2 box it has been flaky as all get out. I'm in the process of upgrading each location to 2.2.1. Hoping that will be the easy fix, if not, will have to start ch

Re: [pfSense] Console is in cyrillic

it is? If it will function normally, I don't much care. I'm not connecting via serial on a regular basis anyway. On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Jeremy Bennett > wrote: > > Here is what I'm seeing: >

Re: [pfSense] Console is in cyrillic

ar 17, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Jim Thompson wrote: > Unless you've changed it, the baud rate on an Alix is 38400 > https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Console_Types > > Jim > > On Mar 17, 2015, at 4:45 PM, Jeremy Bennett > wrote: > > So I recently resolved my serial port

Re: [pfSense] Console is in cyrillic

menu... it is just in a funny font. On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Jim Thompson wrote: > Unless you've changed it, the baud rate on an Alix is 38400 > https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Console_Types > > Jim > > On Mar 17, 2015, at 4:45 PM, Jeremy Bennett > wrote: >

[pfSense] Console is in cyrillic

So I recently resolved my serial port issue and was able to start reviving this Alix box. Made sure that the firmware was .99h Wrote the new pfsense 2.2 2 GB image to a CF card. Slotted it into the Alix - terminal set to 115200 Baud rate, data was 8 bit, parity is none and stop is 1 bit - all pe

Re: [pfSense] serial port sadness

>> nothing wrong with your USB to Serial. >>> The blue Cisco cables are rollover cables. They are not NULL modem >>> cables. Welcome to serial cable pinout hell. ;-) >>> Some of us have been here a long time. I'm no expert but i've got 3 >>>

Re: [pfSense] serial port sadness

Thank you all for the suggestions. I put my own alix router in place for my client, and now that I have a little time, will go ahead and purchase a non-prolific USB to serial adapter, and the associated accessories. I have gotten into the habit of buying prebuilt Alix systems, and that has spoiled

Re: [pfSense] serial port sadness

Do you have a Null Modem cable or a simple Pass-through one? >> >> > On Feb 23, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Jeremy Bennett < >> jbenn...@hikitechnology.com> wrote: >> > >> > I'm trying to get a couple of bricked Alix boards back. >> > >> > I&#

[pfSense] serial port sadness

I'm trying to get a couple of bricked Alix boards back. I've got a USB to serial adapter (which has worked in the past), a Windows 7 computer and Teraterm, but whenever I connect everything up I just get the cursor blinking at me. Set the port to 9600, N, 1 as instructions indicate (usb to serial

Re: [pfSense] Firewall Hardware/Setup for Datacenter...

Jason is correct. Those Supermicro boxes are awesome. Be careful when ordering though... they want ECC memory. The APUs from Netgate are nice too-the year of bundled support has already saved my bacon a number of times. Well worth the cost. On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Jason Whitt wrote: > I

Re: [pfSense] Wifi/WAN issues

I spoke to the good folks at Netgate, and they assured me that the card was indeed compatible with 2.1. From what I've seen, they've always been very responsible with the products they sell and they were very helpful when I raised the issue with them. So, that said, any other ideas? On Mar 6, 2014

[pfSense] Wifi/WAN issues

Hello, I recently purchased and installed a *DCMA-82 IT miniPCI (*Atheros Chipset) wireless card for my Alix 2D3. I was running an older 1.2 era version of PFsense, but decided that I may as well up

Re: [pfSense] Netgate's customized pfSense release

>> My knee jerk reaction is that this is A Bad Thing(tm), and I reloaded the >> devices with images from ESF. Does anyone here have a strong opinion one way >> or the other? In principle, perhaps, in practice probably not. I've been using pfSense for awhile now, and buying hardware from Netgate

Re: [pfSense] SOHO Router for VPN to pfSense

I can’t speak to the advanced routing and traffic shaping stuff, but Alix + PFsense have been great for me. IPSec VPNs between multiple locations have been very reliable. On Apr 30, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Seth Mos wrote: > On 29-4-2013 16:01, j...@millican.us wrote: >> On 4/29/2013 9:35 AM, j...@mil

Re: [pfSense] Problem with IPsec VPN

h on both > sides. > > Brian > www.ntginc.net > > -Original Message- > From: list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org > [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Bennett > Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 2:57 AM > To: list@lists.pfsense.org > Subject: [

[pfSense] Problem with IPsec VPN

I have a site to site IPsec VPN setup. This is probably the 3rd or 4th set of these that I’ve done, and all the other setups seem to work fine–I’ve double-checked the setup, and if it is a config error, I am overlooking it. PFSense 2.0 final on Alix hardware. Site 2 always reports that the ipse