[pfSense Support] Carp failover time

2011-07-02 Thread Shibashish
Hi, What is the average time for the carp failover to kick in... i.e. how much time does it take for the backup to become master and start serving requests and vice versa? Is the timing parameter configurable? I have both the WAN and LAN gw as carp ip. Version2.0-RC1 (i386) built on Thu Mar 17

Re: [pfSense Support] Update hang with packages

2011-07-02 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Thu 30 Jun 2011 12:12:55 NZST +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: A reboot cleared the packages are being updated in thebackground status, all packages have been installed and I haven't detected any other misbehaviour. So only a minor glitch in the updater. Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann

[pfSense Support] NAT Exempt

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Rose
I have an internal (LAN) IP address of 10.2.67.11 and an external (WAN) IP of 10.2.66.15 What is the best way to ensure that I do not NAT packets from 10.2.66.15 to 10.2.67.11 but still retaining a firewall Is there a How to of how I would achieve this I am running PFSense RC2 (latest update)

Re: [pfSense Support] NAT Exempt

2011-07-02 Thread Paul Rose
As I am a newbie, how actually do I do this? And, how do I make sure that ougoing packets to the Internet get PAT applied via the WAN NIC? (But it doesn't effect incoming packets? This is an internal firewall that is going to be used to protect a higher classified network. The WAN connection

Re: [pfSense Support] Carp failover time

2011-07-02 Thread Peter van der Leek
What is the average time for the carp failover to kick in... i.e. how much time does it take for the backup to become master and start serving requests and vice versa? Is the timing parameter configurable? I have both the WAN and LAN gw as carp ip. I as a human have never been faster then the

Re: [pfSense Support] Carp failover time

2011-07-02 Thread Mike Nichols
I think we're discussing timeouts related to OSI levels 2 or 3. A physical disconnect is of course immediate, but i think other factors should be considered, like watchdog style errors, ping timeouts, and transport layer failures. I hope we can document points of failure and expected delays

Re: [pfSense Support] Carp failover time

2011-07-02 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Shibashish shi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, What is the average time for the carp failover to kick in... i.e. how much time does it take for the backup to become master and start serving requests and vice versa? Immediate if it's expected (i.e. you reboot the