Re: [pfSense Support] router failover

2008-02-05 Thread Curtis LaMasters
I've been operating in this configuration for 6 months in two locations without a problem. The version upgrade went very nicely as well because I could fail over to the 2nd firewall, do the upgrade and reboot without taking down the network. We are running on Dell 1750's w/ 2Gb ram, dual proc, du

Re: [pfSense Support] router failover

2008-02-05 Thread RB
This is a very typical setup, and there are probably several other much better HOWTOs available in the documentation and on the forum. Depending on what you want to accomplish, there are several ways to go about this, but the simplest is to set your two endpoints up in a given network, then use Fi

[pfSense Support] router failover

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Flugstad
Not to doubt pfsense, but i'd like to setup 2 pfsense routers so when 1 fails the 2nd will take over. I havent had pfsense fail yet, but i've had hardware(soekris) and powersupplies go out on me, and even though its a quick fix, its still a hassle, and not to mention downtime. is this a simpl

[pfSense Support] Squid behavior

2008-02-05 Thread RB
I've got an odd situation where I have pfSense set up with a Captive Portal and transparent Squid, pulling from an upstream (commercial) proxy. If I configure Squid with the upstream proxy, it pulls from it for a few seconds (high load network), then just stops referring to the upstream, with no l

[pfSense Support] captive portal with cookie

2008-02-05 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, I've seen that microtik has an option of using cookies to authenticate users (captive portal). Is there something similar in pfsense? I'm thinking about using the captive portal for auth of subscribers to a WiFi service, but I'd rather not have them enter their credentials everytime th

[pfSense Support] Re: Wireless authentication

2008-02-05 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Jonathan GF wrote: Hi Ugo, you question, even easy to answer don't have a perfect answer. It depends on what you expect of your network. Well, of course we can't use simple WPA2 since they will be paying. In my case i use WPA2-Personal at home with PSK and 802.1X at work, both with pfSens

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Basic question

2008-02-05 Thread Angelo Turetta
Ugo Bellavance wrote: Tim Dickson wrote: But really, it's your firewall and you can manage it how you see fit! I know, but even if I'd liked to, I don't think this option is available in the GUI anyway. Well, it's not explicit, you have to play with rules ordering. Define an Alias with all