Re: [pfSense] is pfSense the right choice?

2012-05-04 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Alex Damast [Aqua-Flo] wrote: > Not true at all. Layer 7 does do this exact thing in pfsense and it works > well. > That is true of some, there aren't signatures that match every possible means of streaming video though.

Re: [pfSense] is pfSense the right choice?

2012-05-04 Thread Alex Damast [Aqua-Flo]
Not true at all. Layer 7 does do this exact thing in pfsense and it works well. Alex (805)967-1938 - Office (805)845-4794 - After hours www.aquaflo.com On May 3, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Chris Buechler wrote: > Similar on your other QoS point in that you'll > have difficulty differentiating at least

Re: [pfSense] is pfSense the right choice?

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Rodrigue
-Original Message- From: list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Chris Buechler Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 1:21 PM To: pfSense support and discussion Subject: Re: [pfSense] is pfSense the right choice? On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Noam

Re: [pfSense] is pfSense the right choice?

2012-05-03 Thread Chris Buechler
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Noam Birnbaum wrote: > Good call, David -- > > They current have dual WAN -- 40/40 WiMAX and 50/10 cable.  I expect that as > they grow these pipes will at least double. > > As for their *expectations* -- they are a web development startup in San > Francisco, so…

Re: [pfSense] is pfSense the right choice?

2012-05-03 Thread Jim Thompson
On May 3, 2012, at 12:58, David Burgess wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Noam Birnbaum > wrote: >> Good call, David -- >> >> They current have dual WAN -- 40/40 WiMAX and 50/10 cable. I expect that as >> they grow these pipes will at least double. > > > pfsense should do fine, but

Re: [pfSense] is pfSense the right choice?

2012-05-03 Thread David Burgess
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Noam Birnbaum wrote: > Good call, David -- > > They current have dual WAN -- 40/40 WiMAX and 50/10 cable.  I expect that as > they grow these pipes will at least double. pfsense should do fine, but last I looked most of the netgate stuff was Alix-based, which do

Re: [pfSense] is pfSense the right choice?

2012-05-03 Thread Noam Birnbaum
Good call, David -- They current have dual WAN -- 40/40 WiMAX and 50/10 cable. I expect that as they grow these pipes will at least double. As for their *expectations* -- they are a web development startup in San Francisco, so… they have very high expectations. They'll swallow whatever ban

Re: [pfSense] is pfSense the right choice?

2012-05-03 Thread David Burgess
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Noam Birnbaum wrote: > Is pfSense the right choice for this environment? You didn't mention the (arguably) most important feature of your proposed environment, which would be throughput expectations. For the feature set you mentioned though, pfsense sounds like

[pfSense] is pfSense the right choice?

2012-05-03 Thread Noam Birnbaum
Hey all, We've been experimenting with Netgate appliances running pfSense 2 this year at a few small clients. We're still learning the feature set. We have a client that's 30 people growing to 75. They need a router that can: - provide granular QoS for VoIP, videoconferencing, and streaming