[pfSense Support] help with port forwarding

2009-02-06 Thread Nick Smith
Hello list, I seem to be having some problems with opening ports the correct way on my pfsense firewall. I have a client that is behind a pfsense firewall that needs to use ftp to download from from a provider (insurance company) Their tech docs tell me to open ports 20,21,80,443,7950-8079 for al

AW: [pfSense Support] what VPN to use

2009-02-06 Thread Fuchs, Martin
Use OpenVPN We use it here with 10 sites and 100 road-warriors... Works like a charm :-) -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nick Upson [mailto:nick.up...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 15:50 An: support@pfsense.com Betreff: [pfSense Support] what VPN to use Hi, I'm intendin

Re: [pfSense Support] Load balancer

2009-02-06 Thread Gary Buckmaster
Hiren Joshi wrote: Hello all, I'm using pfsense to firewall at the moment but pass all the http traffic to an internal load balancer (nginx). My question is, would it be possible to replace nginx with pfsense and how would the two compare in terms of performance? Many thanks, Josh. We use

[pfSense Support] Load balancer

2009-02-06 Thread Hiren Joshi
Hello all, I'm using pfsense to firewall at the moment but pass all the http traffic to an internal load balancer (nginx). My question is, would it be possible to replace nginx with pfsense and how would the two compare in terms of performance? Many thanks, Josh.

Re: [pfSense Support] what VPN to use

2009-02-06 Thread Curtis LaMasters
But what if I want to VPN with my iPhone :) /kidding Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Tim Nelson wrote: > Replying to myself here. In the current version of pfSense, I do not > believe it is possible to firewall/filt

Re: [pfSense Support] what VPN to use

2009-02-06 Thread Tim Nelson
Replying to myself here. In the current version of pfSense, I do not believe it is possible to firewall/filter traffic on your OpenVPN interfaces. IIRC, this functionality is coming in 2.0. If you need filtering, you may want to look at IPSEC instead. Just please for the love of , don't use PPT

Re: [pfSense Support] what VPN to use

2009-02-06 Thread Curtis LaMasters
+1 for OpenVPN. Once you wrap your head around the certificate creation, it's quite easy and in each instance where I have both Cisco VPN and OpenVPN, performance is better for OpenVPN. Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:04 AM

Re: [pfSense Support] what VPN to use

2009-02-06 Thread Hassan Manji
Just to add my support for Open VPN We use open VPN between offices (using PFSense boxes) and the OpenVPN gui on windows machines direct to HQ PFSense box. Works sweet. Rgds Hassan On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Oliver von Bueren wrote: > Hi > > Nick Upson wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm intending

Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense and relayd

2009-02-06 Thread Bill Marquette
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Paul Mansfield wrote: > the load balancing feature in pfsense is a little bit basic. That was intentional - I disagreed with putting the load balancer in the product in the first place. We're a firewall. The functionality has been improved in 2.0. > is anyone wo

[pfSense Support] pfsense 1.2.3 checkip.dyndns.org reveals NAT address instead of WAN IP ?

2009-02-06 Thread Michel Servaes
I upgraded some days ago to 1.2.3 because of a problem between updates... I am quite sure, that 1.2.1RC1 did resolve to my WAN IP... but I am struggling with my FTP server here in my LAN ever since I upgraded to 1.2.3 So I was thinking about on how to solve this, checked out the FAQ about the ftp

Re: [pfSense Support] what VPN to use

2009-02-06 Thread Oliver von Bueren
Hi Nick Upson wrote: Hi, I'm intending to implement VPN into our network, from various windows machines at peopel's houses. Can anyone reccomend a product that will work well with pfsense I recommend OpenVPN with pfSense. I've deployed it for various windows machines using version 2.0.9. As

Re: [pfSense Support] what VPN to use

2009-02-06 Thread Tim Nelson
OpenVPN! Secure, robust, and stable. What more could you ask? Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 - "Nick Upson" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm intending to implement VPN into our network, from various windows > machines at peopel's houses. > Can anyone reccomend a p

[pfSense Support] what VPN to use

2009-02-06 Thread Nick Upson
Hi, I'm intending to implement VPN into our network, from various windows machines at peopel's houses. Can anyone reccomend a product that will work well with pfsense - To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For

Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense and relayd

2009-02-06 Thread Gary Buckmaster
Yes, its it 2.0 Paul Mansfield wrote: the load balancing feature in pfsense is a little bit basic. is anyone working on a port/package of relayd, and if so, how well does it work? found some "recent" news about it in an openbsd blog http://www.bsdlover.cn/html/54/n-1154.html thanks

[pfSense Support] pfsense and relayd

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Mansfield
the load balancing feature in pfsense is a little bit basic. is anyone working on a port/package of relayd, and if so, how well does it work? found some "recent" news about it in an openbsd blog http://www.bsdlover.cn/html/54/n-1154.html thanks -

Re: [pfSense Support] Multiple Users / Login

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Mansfield
Chris Flugstad wrote: > DOh! > > I searched, and I have over 10,000 emails from this list :-D, i > searched, but thought someone had to have brought it up yes, but not to web interface. if you ensure you have ssh access, you can manually save a backup config file in case of dire problems. in the