Re: [pfSense Support] hardware suggestions

2011-08-04 Thread Nick Upson
On 3 August 2011 18:15, Mehma Sarja mehmasa...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/3/11 1:29 AM, Nick Upson wrote: On 2 August 2011 17:09, Mehma Sarja mehmasa...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/2/11 8:22 AM, Nick Upson wrote: ok, I'm close to giving up with installing pfsense 1.2.3 or 2.0rc3 onto the FX5624

[pfSense Support] captive portal firewall rules

2011-08-04 Thread Shali K.R.
Dear all, i am trying to configure captive portal in my network, its working only if i enabled 'allow from all to all in firewall anybody please tell me whats ports are using captive portal service. -- Thanks Regards Shali K R Server Administrator Vidya Academy of Science Technology

[pfSense Support] best practices [SOT?]

2011-08-04 Thread mayak-cq
hi all, i have deployed pfsense since its earliest versions and it has simply proven to be one of the best pieces of software that i have ever used. i have had several calls now from clients asking me questions about network security in light articles like this one:

Re: [pfSense Support] best practices [SOT?]

2011-08-04 Thread Shibashish
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:03 PM, mayak-cq ma...@australsat.com wrote: ** hi all, i have deployed pfsense since its earliest versions and it has simply proven to be one of the best pieces of software that i have ever used. i have had several calls now from clients asking me questions about

[pfSense Support] fx5624 install - new problem

2011-08-04 Thread Nick Upson
Hi, having got pfsense 1.2.3 to install on the box I've now got a new problem. I can't get the 10/100M ports to work. If I go into the shell and do ifconfig all interfaces are present but these ports always show status: no carrier with or without a cable to another PC plugged in I realise that

RE: [pfSense Support] fx5624 install - new problem

2011-08-04 Thread Bart Grefte
Have you tried other cables and hardware connected to the other end? Instead of cross, try straight cables or the other way round. And set the ports on the other end manually to 10 or 100Mb might also be something to try. Maybe those ports don't support autosensing/autonegotiation, that can

Re: [pfSense Support] fx5624 install - new problem

2011-08-04 Thread Nick Upson
that was it, a colegue pointed me in that direction a few mins ago, it threw me that the giga ports do have it but the 10/100 didn't On 4 August 2011 13:41, Bart Grefte b...@ravenslair.nl wrote: Have you tried other cables and hardware connected to the other end? Instead of cross, try

RE: [pfSense Support] fx5624 install - new problem

2011-08-04 Thread Bart Grefte
Okay, glad it solved the problem :) _ Van: Nick Upson [mailto:n...@telensa.com] Verzonden: donderdag 4 augustus 2011 14:48 Aan: support@pfsense.com Onderwerp: Re: [pfSense Support] fx5624 install - new problem that was it, a colegue pointed me in that direction a few mins ago,

Re: [pfSense Support] best practices [SOT?]

2011-08-04 Thread David Miller
Unfortunately a firewall isn't going to offer much protection against these sorts of social engineered attacks. As the real weakness here is the neural network behind the keyboard and not the computer network. The best thing you can do is educating the employees about social engineering. And

Re: [pfSense Support] best practices [SOT?]

2011-08-04 Thread mayak-cq
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 11:03 -0400, David Miller wrote: snip Wow that rambled on longer than I had expected. So I guess that's my 3 cents. -- David thank you david, a very compelling and thorough argument. cheers m - To

[pfSense Support] Squid uninstall/install problem

2011-08-04 Thread Carlos
Hi all, I have a pfSense 1.2.3 box running squid, when I tried to upgrade (reinstall the package) from version 2.7.9_4 to the latest 2.7.9_4.1, it didn't complete the process, was removed from the services GUI but it's still in the Installed Packages. I reboot the box, tried to remove the