Re: [pfSense Support] Problem with IBM X335

2007-08-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 18.08.2007 um 01:13 schrieb Sean Cavanaugh: overall is there any benefit to pfsense to leaving ACPI on? seems almost worth it to boot with it turned off and leave it as an option to enable it voluntarily. I think you might need it to boot some newer servers. It's not all about therm

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-17 Thread Tortise
Thanks Sean, Having googled a bit I am running up Kubuntu on an old box with wireshark. I assume it will run without an IP assignment from the hub, using the NIC's "promiscous mode"? (Probably no DHCP running and can't use my static IP!) I appreciate the your directional overview, I will let

Re: [pfSense Support] Problem with IBM X335

2007-08-17 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
overall is there any benefit to pfsense to leaving ACPI on? seems almost worth it to boot with it turned off and leave it as an option to enable it voluntarily. -Sean - Original Message - From: "Kyle Mott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [pfS

Re: [pfSense Support] Problem with IBM X335

2007-08-17 Thread Kyle Mott
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/HOWTO_disable_acpi -Kyle Sean Cavanaugh wrote: just change the config to boot with ACPI off by default. there are instructions how to do this in the Wiki. -Sean > Date: Fri, 17 Aug

[pfSense Support] OpenVPN failover with multiple WAN connections

2007-08-17 Thread David Wadson
Local site has two WAN connections - one cable, one DSL from two separate internet providers. Remote site has one ISP connection. Is it possible for pfSense to automatically failover a site-to-site OpenVPN connection between the two sites? Thanks, Dave --

RE: [pfSense Support] Problem with IBM X335

2007-08-17 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
just change the config to boot with ACPI off by default. there are instructions how to do this in the Wiki. -Sean > Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:26:57 +0200> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > support@pfsense.com> Subject: [pfSense Support] Problem with IBM X335> > Hi > all,> > i've just installed

RE: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-17 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
I actually turned the "block private networks" off on mine because my ISP passes a 192.168.x.x address when i initially apply for a DHCP, but if you get a static IP, then its a non-issue. realistically, to truly find the absolute reason, you would have to tcpdump on the modem and pfsense at the

Re: [pfSense Support] Problem with IBM X335

2007-08-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Hans Rienecker wrote: > Hi all, > > i've just installed PFSense 1.01 on an IBM X335 (Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz 2.5 GB > RAM) and i noticed that it take very long time to boot the system. > It hangs for ca. 6 minutes showing a message "smp: AP CPU #1 Launched!" and > then boots and is ready for use. > Wh

[pfSense Support] Problem with IBM X335

2007-08-17 Thread Hans Rienecker
Hi all, i've just installed PFSense 1.01 on an IBM X335 (Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz 2.5 GB RAM) and i noticed that it take very long time to boot the system. It hangs for ca. 6 minutes showing a message "smp: AP CPU #1 Launched!" and then boots and is ready for use. When i boot with option 2 (Boot FreeB

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-17 Thread Tortise
Hi Sean >> im really thinking it's a modem problem or something with the IP that is >> assigned for pfsense WAN. the fact that you can ALWAYS hit the modems config >> page even if internet access is unavailable kind of confirms it. It does tend to suggest that maybe pfsense is not the problem,

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-17 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
im really thinking it's a modem problem or something with the IP that is assigned for pfsense WAN. the fact that you can ALWAYS hit the modems config page even if internet access is unavailable kind of confirms it. conecting another computer to the modem, I'm taking it, would get a DHCP address

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-17 Thread Tortise
Hi Sean et al Problem has recurred, I have done the following ping tests during the problem condition: I can ping from both LAN and WAN the WAN Static IP (a.b.c.123) I can ping from both LAN and WAN the webserver on the Cable modem (192.168.100.1) I can not ping from both LAN and WAN the serve