[pfSense Support] OT: physical interface v vlan

2010-02-15 Thread David Burgess
I would like to know if somebody can tell me an advantange, other than raw throughput, of a router with multiple interfaces when compared with a router using few physical interfaces but vlans in their place. I cannot come up with one. db

Re: [pfSense Support] VPN Problem

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Abdulrehman arvagabo...@gmail.com wrote: I have added a rule at my LAN interface for UDP 500. But still same issue...cannot access remote websites... Outbound NAT rule, not firewall rule. Needs to be on WAN.

Re: [pfSense Support] OT: physical interface v vlan

2010-02-15 Thread Gary Buckmaster
David Burgess wrote: I would like to know if somebody can tell me an advantange, other than raw throughput, of a router with multiple interfaces when compared with a router using few physical interfaces but vlans in their place. I cannot come up with one. db

[pfSense Support] multiple pppoe interfaces?

2010-02-15 Thread David Burgess
I'm considering a setup with multiwan where more than one WAN connection would require pppoe. This does not appear to be possible in 1.2.3, as my OPT interfaces only give static and dhcp options. Am I doing something wrong? Is this something that will be supported in the future? Or am I laughably

Re: [pfSense Support] multiple pppoe interfaces?

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:36 AM, David Burgess apt@gmail.com wrote: I'm considering a setup with multiwan where more than one WAN connection would require pppoe. This does not appear to be possible in 1.2.3, as my OPT interfaces only give static and dhcp options. Am I doing something

Re: [pfSense Support] OT: physical interface v vlan

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Buechler
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Gary Buckmaster g...@s4f.com wrote: David Burgess wrote: I would like to know if somebody can tell me an advantange, other than raw throughput, of a router with multiple interfaces when compared with a router using few physical interfaces but vlans in their

Re: [pfSense Support] OT: physical interface v vlan

2010-02-15 Thread David Burgess
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Chris Buechler cbuech...@gmail.com wrote: This depends on how much you trust your switches, and more so, how much you trust your admins. It's usually easier to inadvertently configure something on the wrong VLAN than it is to plug something into the wrong

Re: [pfSense Support] embedded devices

2010-02-15 Thread mehma sarja
I bought an Alix board (500 Mhz, 256 MB RAM and 2 ethernet ports) a couple of years ago from netgate.com and am happily running 1.2.3 on it. I paid about two and a quarter and am wondering two things: a. Are there faster embedded flash systems out there? b. Are there less expensive sources

Re: [pfSense Support] embedded devices

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Buechler
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:28 AM, mehma sarja mehmasa...@gmail.com wrote: I bought an Alix board (500 Mhz, 256 MB RAM and 2 ethernet ports) a couple of years ago from netgate.com and am happily running 1.2.3 on it. I paid about two and a quarter and am wondering two things: a.  Are there