RE: [pfSense Support] STP on Redundant Transparent Firewalls

2011-09-07 Thread Adam Thompson
don’t know, just tell us what kind of switch(es) are involved. Lastly, what does your PBX have to do with any of this? -Adam Thompson <mailto:athom...@athompso.net> athom...@athompso.net From: Austin G. Smith [mailto:aus...@digitalcompass.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011

RE: [pfSense Support] Install NIC Atheros of mainboard

2011-09-06 Thread Adam Thompson
. Most likely, you’ll have to wait for pfSense 2.2, which might be based on FreeBSD 9.1 – whenever that happens. Since FreeBSD 9 is already in beta, I doubt support for that chip will be added before release. -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net (204) 291-7950 - direct (204) 489-6515

RE: [pfSense Support] VPN Failover Backup

2011-08-18 Thread Adam Thompson
“ipservices” you’re good to run OSPF. If it also says in “k9” you’re able to use encryption (but you won’t want to, as the CPU is very slow). -Adam Thompson <mailto:athom...@athompso.net> athom...@athompso.net From: David Miller [mailto:davi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, Aug

RE: [pfSense Support] PPTP Broken in latest AMD 2.0 Snapshots

2011-08-17 Thread Adam Thompson
to any other interpretation... Regardless, you've clarified the situation now, thank you. -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net "This Is Just A Test, Please Ignore The Peanut Panicking Over In The Gallery. Thank You For Your Cooperation." -

RE: [pfSense Support] PPTP Broken in latest AMD 2.0 Snapshots

2011-08-17 Thread Adam Thompson
he CPU could be running slower, or IOAT could be disabled or something like that in 32-bit mode. I'm only talking about a single data point here. Still hoping I misunderstood you anyway, -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net ---

RE: [pfSense Support] Kingston SSD filesystem corruption

2011-08-09 Thread Adam Thompson
n… not exactly suitable for daily use! That means that during installation of pfSense 2.0, your SSD should release all blocks, which will still help somewhat. -Adam Thompson <mailto:athom...@athompso.net> athom...@athompso.net (204) 291-7950 - direct (204) 489-6515 - fax

RE: [pfSense Support] BGP support in 2.0

2011-08-03 Thread Adam Thompson
I've been accepting ~ 13k routes inbound advertising nothing. So that part works, too. Now you just need confirmation from someone who does both! -Adam Thompson Nathan Eisenberg wrote: >> Does 2.x have BGP support ? >> We have 2 providers that we wish to connect to via BG

RE: [pfSense Support] RE: (Update) Pantech UML290

2011-07-24 Thread Adam Thompson
speeds in excess of 10MBps, it might work as is. No idea what magic AT command would do so, however - I haven't used serial links (never mind Hayes command-set modems!) in quite a long while now. -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net (204) 291-7950 - dir

RE: [pfSense Support] RE: (Update) Pantech UML290

2011-07-24 Thread Adam Thompson
snapshot in the very near future. I don't think fixing mpd5 could fix the kernel overflow problem suggested elsewhere, however, so I suggest you not try to use this in a multilink setup for now. -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net -

Re: [pfSense Support] squid corrupts content

2011-07-16 Thread Adam Thompson
Although unlikely, that could be symptomatic of bad RAM. Still amazes me that no-one seems to see the necessity for ECC RAM in networking gear. It's unlikely that such a problem would cause such an isolated, specific symptom, however. -Adam Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >I've had this happen sev

RE: [pfSense Support] Re: unknown cause of limited throughput

2011-07-14 Thread Adam Thompson
, so allowing ESXi to split the VLANs into multiple vNICs was much, much faster than allowing the VLAN tags to propagate through to the VM. -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net > -Original Message- > From: David Burgess [mailto:apt@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 0

RE: [pfSense Support] Backing up config file

2011-06-29 Thread Adam Thompson
; running 1.2.2 and 1.2.3. This may not work with the 2.x series. It > is untested there... ***CAVEAT*** This has been discussed here before. Any 1.x scripts that require authentication will not work with 2.x. For a simple example of exactly this, see http://doc.pfsens

Re: [pfSense Support] naive prioritization of VoIP?

2011-06-02 Thread Adam Thompson
t >something like speedtest.speakeasy.net. Walk through the "traffic >shaper wizard" specifiying that VoIP gets top priority, whether that's >the internal IP address (or alias) of your VoIP ATA, Astrisk server or >VoIP telephone. > >Good luck >-Karl > > >

[pfSense Support] naive prioritization of VoIP?

2011-06-02 Thread Adam Thompson
, or PaloAlto. Is there anything that simple that I can do under pfSense? Thanks, -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net

RE: [pfSense Support] DHCP Server with virtual IP (subnets)

2011-05-25 Thread Adam Thompson
t DHCP on a separate server instead. (I spend about 20 minutes looking at the source and decided I didn't feel like re-designing it from the ground up, especially when so many other things make assumptions about the way DHCP works now.) Good lu

Re: [pfSense Support] IPsec, Multi-WAN Session Setup Problems. (2.0 RC1)

2011-05-19 Thread Adam Thompson
I'm wondering if I'm seeing something closely-related: I also have a VIP (CARP) setup where IPSec will not work properly. I never thought to examine the actual IPs that closely, though... I'll see off I can replicate the problem tomorrow. -Adam Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: >Dear Support, > >

RE: [pfSense Support] wrong default gateway set on reboot

2011-05-13 Thread Adam Thompson
;other" network. I just make sure I never learn a default route from the secondary network - if my primary GW goes down, I should retain connectivity to the other ~13,000 subnets, but I should lose my route to the commercial internet. So far, I think it works... not

RE: [pfSense Support] 802.11n AP success?

2011-05-05 Thread Adam Thompson
> Has anyone had any success in setting up a wireless N AP? According to > the 2.0-RC1 record of tests on wireless cards, only the Marvell 802.11n > card works, but the only n card I could find of theirs is mini-PCIe. > Does anyone have any success to report for other n cards, or any success > in u

Re: [pfSense Support] Finding the mac of squid users

2011-05-03 Thread Adam Thompson
This is a frequently asked question both here and elsewhere, including squid-specific forums. The question arises from an imperfect understanding of IP networking. One of the cornerstones of IP is the decoupling of data-link and network layers. There is no inherent requirement in IP to even h

[pfSense Support] GRE help needed

2011-04-20 Thread Adam Thompson
here? (I’m trying to use GRE so I can run a routing protocol; apparently OSPF and IPSec tunnels don’t really work together in pfSense.) Thanks, -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net

[pfSense Support] LAGG across all interfaces?

2011-04-20 Thread Adam Thompson
up for static LAG and .1Q tagging, so would not normally have any network connectivity until I configured pfSense to match. -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net

RE: [pfSense Support] IPSEC and static routes?

2011-04-19 Thread Adam Thompson
_itself_over > _IPsec_VPN%3F ...I forgot to search the *website*. Duh. That needs some updating for 2.0; who maintains the website? i.e. should I use redmine for submitting updated docs, or is there a better process? -Adam

[pfSense Support] IPSEC and static routes?

2011-04-19 Thread Adam Thompson
something like this before… Could someone please jog my memory on exactly what I need to add? (BTW: running 2.0RC1, where that makes a difference) -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net

RE: [pfSense Support] Is anyone scraping pfsense pages in 2.0?

2011-04-15 Thread Adam Thompson
installing the SNMPd package for pfSense. -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net [Yes, I know I top-posted. Trying to figure out how to turn that off in Outlook right now...] -Original Message- From: John Busch [mailto:jbusch...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:13 To: support

[pfSense Support] excessive CPU utilization when saving changes to Squid config pages

2011-03-31 Thread Adam Thompson
ore than one pfSense install, but this is the first time it’s taking _this_ long – typical is about 60-120 seconds of CPU processing while doing apparently nothing. Thoughts? Any way to debug what php is doing that takes so long? Thanks, -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net

RE: [pfSense Support] www.pfsense.org down?

2011-03-29 Thread Adam Thompson
> -Original Message- > From: Fuchs, Martin [mailto:martin.fu...@trendchiller.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 09:30 > To: support@pfsense.com > Subject: AW: [pfSense Support] www.pfsense.org down? > > > FWIW, I used to sell a lot of HP ProCurve gear; the only switches > of > > theirs I

RE: [pfSense Support] www.pfsense.org down?

2011-03-26 Thread Adam Thompson
> The one that failed is a 1800-24G, cheapest managed 24 port gig > switch > they make. I bought a E2510G-24 to replace it, will use the 1800- > 24G > replacement somewhere less critical. Though I know our customers > have > at least 10 of those in production networks and this is the first > one >

RE: [pfSense Support] www.pfsense.org down?

2011-03-26 Thread Adam Thompson
> Was earlier, switch flaked out. Go figure we replace an ancient > Cat2924 which are ticking timebombs to fail with a brand new HP > managed gigabit switch and it flakes out within a month.. I'd really like to know, was this one of the old ProCurve models, or one of the old 3Com/H3C models? Th

RE: [pfSense Support] RE: Release all unused DHCP leases.

2011-03-23 Thread Adam Thompson
t have not reached their max lease time? Thank you, Dwane From: Adam Thompson [mailto:athom...@athompso.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:47 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] RE: Release all unused DHCP leases. Could you explain, please what you mean by ‘r

RE: [pfSense Support] RE: Release all unused DHCP leases.

2011-03-23 Thread Adam Thompson
Could you explain, please what you mean by ‘release all unused DHCP addresses’? Once you’ve changed DHCP server parameters, nothing actually changes until the client next renews its lease, so what I think you’re after… is an automatic process that takes up to 2*previous-max-lease-time. You cou

RE: [pfSense Support] can't block https://facebook.com via firefox

2011-03-23 Thread Adam Thompson
> The way those in general work (not sure on Fortigate specifically) > is they MITM HTTPS as a proxy, you have to install a certificate > on all the clients that it uses so they trust the forged certs > it provides to the internal clients. There are two HTTPS > connections, one from client to the f

RE: [pfSense Support] can't block https://facebook.com via firefox

2011-03-22 Thread Adam Thompson
> From: James Bensley [mailto:jwbens...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 13:36 > To: support@pfsense.com > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] can't block https://facebook.com via > firefox > > I don't believe you can filter https traffic can you? > I know squid wont cache it, it can't, its en

RE: [pfSense Support] Problem with pfSense and curl

2011-03-20 Thread Adam Thompson
I don't doubt that Seth _has_ had success using one technique and not another, but I would also like to know what kind of "state" he's talking about. Using the curl functions from inside PHP _should_ be equivalent to invoking curl(1) from the command-line. There may be some difference in defau

RE: [pfSense Support] RE: DHCP server settings

2011-03-15 Thread Adam Thompson
Yes. Many clients will automatically ask for longer lease times than your default. -Adam From: Atkins, Dwane P [mailto:atki...@uthscsa.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:36 To: 'support@pfsense.com' Subject: [pfSense Support] RE: DHCP server settings I am not trying to spam mail,

RE: [pfSense Support] DHCP server settings

2011-03-15 Thread Adam Thompson
DHCP lease as long as they keep getting DHCPACKs – it sounds like this might be what you’re experiencing. The only solution is – usually – to reboot the device. If you have Win95/98 clients, you may have to use regedit to make it forget its old lease. -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net

RE: [pfSense Support] Advice?

2011-01-04 Thread Adam Thompson
I don't know if this is still a problem for them. OTOH, Meru networks tend to be faster than usual; I remember reading somewhere that these two aspects were directly linked. -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net - To unsu

RE: [pfSense Support] IPsec traffic from pfsense not passed?

2010-12-30 Thread Adam Thompson
> > Am I missing something obvious? > > http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Why_can't_I_query_SNMP,_use_syslog > ,_NTP,_or_other_services_initiated_by_the_firewall_itself_over_IPse > c_VPN%3F OK, it was pretty obvious :-) Does OpenVPN have any similar issues? If not, this might be a reason to fina

[pfSense Support] IPsec traffic from pfsense not passed?

2010-12-30 Thread Adam Thompson
communicate with the remote firewall and servers behind it. Am I missing something obvious? I assumed IPSec was set up correctly since every host *behind* the pfSense boxen works fine… Thanks, -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net

RE: [pfSense Support] IPSec VPN Question

2010-12-05 Thread Adam Thompson
ios where fast convergence is required, but it can be tweaked for that purpose if needed. 4) Redundant tunnels - see comments re IPSec above. Other tunnel protocols still need a routing protocol to handle the equal-cost paths so the kernel doesn't go insane... like OSPF or BGP. As I sa

RE: [pfSense Support] how to manage 2 subnets for LAN ?

2010-11-18 Thread Adam Thompson
I think the OP was referring to running two subnets concurrently on the same wire, something I often have to do for various reasons, sometimes to solve co-existence issues while renumbering a network. I have no idea how to accomplish this in pfSense; apparently I haven't had to do this since I

RE: [pfSense Support] IPMI under pfSense 2.0?

2010-11-11 Thread Adam Thompson
Thank you for the suggestion, but none of those packages work as-is. The “simplest” solution would appear to be: include ipmi(4) in the kernel… I’m quite familiar with OpenBSD, but not so much with FreeBSD – and definitely not familiar enough with it to want to attempt recompiling my own kernel

RE: [pfSense Support] Swap

2010-11-10 Thread Adam Thompson
ect: Re: [pfSense Support] Swap > > If I understood correctly James tried to expand existing swap and > somehow he can not do it by merging existing and new partitions. > > On 10.11.2010 19:47, Adam Thompson wrote: > > Why not just add the necessary line to /etc/fstab, and le

RE: [pfSense Support] Swap

2010-11-10 Thread Adam Thompson
Why not just add the necessary line to /etc/fstab, and let the boot-time rc scripts mount it like usual? (Note: I _am_ running 2.0, this might be a useless suggestion under 1.x, I don't know.) The discussion of adding swap in the FreeBSD docs mentioned only covers adding auxiliary swap *files*,

[pfSense Support] Bug #958 - still broken for me

2010-11-07 Thread Adam Thompson
Ermal/Jim/Chris, Please note that bug #958 is still an issue for me, it does _not_ appear to be resolved according to my testing. (Sorry to say...) http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/958 Thanks, -Adam - To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: Re: [pfSense Support] Assign custom Gateway

2010-11-05 Thread Adam Thompson
apparently optional). I just can't _find_ the XML and PHP code in question right now... (And yes, I know, I should post a patch for the OpenBGPD mods I did - I will, Real Soon Now.) -Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca <>

[pfSense Support] *bump* Re: [pfSense Support] WAN reply-to under 2.0?

2010-10-28 Thread Adam Thompson
*bump* Ermal, this still doesn't work for me. How should I setup the rule? (I need to force all inbound-NAT'd connections to reply via the NAT session, *not* via the system routing table.) On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 21:43 +0100, Ermal Luçi wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:28 PM,

Re: Re: [pfSense Support] networked file systems

2010-10-27 Thread Adam Thompson
at least the block allocation... iSCSI hides all of those details, as it merely exposes one large chunk of disk blocks to the client. -Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca <>- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com

[pfSense Support] OpenVPN multi-wan in 2.0 - local port re-use?

2010-10-24 Thread Adam Thompson
? (I tried, the gui complains that the local port is already in use. Which is true, but – I think – shouldn’t matter if it’s bound to specific interfaces.) Thanks, -Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca (204) 291-7950

[pfSense Support] Win7 PPTP MTU/MSS problem with 2.0?

2010-10-20 Thread Adam Thompson
1372 but any packets with payload larger than 1368 don’t make it through. (Using “ping –f –l 1368 192.168.232.1” works, 1369-1372 doesn’t, 1373+ complains [correctly] about DF bit being set.) Workarounds? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, -Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca

[pfSense Support] WAN reply-to under 2.0?

2010-10-19 Thread Adam Thompson
all I've succeeded on doing so far is breaking ALL smtp connections... Can anyone explain how I use this new feature in 2.0? Thanks, -Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca (204) 291-7950 <>- To unsubscribe, e-mail: sup

[pfSense Support] TinyDNS on 2.0beta4 ?

2010-10-15 Thread Adam Thompson
Chris/anyone, Does the TinyDNS package work correctly under 2.0BETA4? Thanks, -Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca <>- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsen

RE: [pfSense Support] Dual WAN + Firewall Redundancy + UPS Redundancy (?) at entrance

2010-10-09 Thread Adam Thompson
It’s perhaps overkill for many scenarios, but if you’re truly trying for no-single-point-of-failure, buy UPSes from two different vendors, ideally using two different technologies. I’ve seen matched pairs of UPSes knocked out by the same power event, and more commonly I’ve seen matched sets of

RE: [pfSense Support] How do I break down a /22 into smaller subnets to use behind(LAN) side of my pfsense box

2010-10-05 Thread Adam Thompson
Yeah, oops. :-) LOL - I'm sitting in a Microsoft conference geared to large telecom operators providing HDTV programming, and they announced that IPv6 is *not* on their roadmap because "we haven't heard from customers that address exhaustion is a significant problem". Given that AT&T is the

RE: [pfSense Support] How do I break down a /22 into smaller subnets to use behind(LAN) side of my pfsense box

2010-10-04 Thread Adam Thompson
as 10.10.9.0/24, OPT2 as 10.10.10.0/24, and OPT3 as 10.10.11.0/24. Not sure if that's the level of example you're looking for or not... -Adam Thompson athom...@c3a.ca From: Chris Flugstad [ch...@cascadelink.com] Sent: October-04-10 18:32 To: suppor

Re: Re: [pfSense Support] multi-wan, multi-lan security

2010-08-09 Thread Adam Thompson
nding a truly random number, as there are many real-world constraints, but I believe there are more constraints on the 64-bit number than the 80-bit number, which would skew the model towards being even easier to find the IPv4 address... -Adam Thompson Chief Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca&

RE: [pfSense Support] multi-wan, multi-lan security

2010-08-05 Thread Adam Thompson
> The low-end Cisco ASA 5505 requires VLAN configuration since it is > just a switch. > The Cisco ASA 5510 has four Ethernet ports. If you need more, just > use VLAN. > Perhaps, Cisco is expecting a firewalled network to use managed > switches. Is it best practice? Why is there a resistance to VLAN

RE: [pfSense Support] multi-wan, multi-lan security

2010-08-05 Thread Adam Thompson
the switch through a 4x V-in-LAG trunk. I haven't had time to isolate the problem yet, although I observed slightly better performance when I let VMWare handle the VLAN tagging instead of pfSense (i.e. created 4 untagged virtual e1000 NICs instead of 1 tagged vnic).

RE: [pfSense Support] pfSense 2.0 Beta4 on

2010-07-31 Thread Adam Thompson
27;d probably see disk I/O in that case. You aren't in the middle of re-mirroring a geom(8) RAID1 set, are you? -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net > -Original Message- > From: Fabian Abplanalp [mailto:fabian.abplan...@bug.ch] > Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 15:55 > To

RE: [pfSense Support] Minimal configuration for pfSense.

2010-07-14 Thread Adam Thompson
mbers: the dual-1GHz-PIII could sustain between 200-300Mbit/sec between the two 1Gb ports (untagged). The VM can only sustain about 10-20Mbit/sec between the same two VLANs. I haven't yet attempted to dedicate one port in VMware to each VLAN in order to completely remove tagging. -

RE: [pfSense Support] 1:1 multi-homed NAT broken?

2010-07-14 Thread Adam Thompson
So... does that mean I can't accomplish this with 1.2.x at all? I tried 2.0 on a spare server, but OpenBGPd didn't seem to inject routes into the kernel at all so I didn't pursue it very far. -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca (204) 272-9628 /

RE: [pfSense Support] Bandwdith usage since start of month?

2010-07-13 Thread Adam Thompson
Sorry, that looks like my fault - the patch I sent inline with my last message accidentally included a change that I hadn't actually tested yet... and if Jim applied it as-is, well, that's the error you get. Oops. -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca

RE: [pfSense Support] Bandwdith usage since start of month?

2010-07-13 Thread Adam Thompson
_summary($rrd, $lastmonth, $start, 720*60); +$lastmonth = fetch_rrd_summary($rrd, $lastmonth, $start, "86400"); -function fetch_rrd_summary($rrd, $start, $end, $resolution=(60*60)) { +function fetch_rrd_summary($rrd, $start, $end, $resolution="3600") { $traffic = array();

RE: [pfSense Support] Bandwdith usage since start of month?

2010-07-13 Thread Adam Thompson
servations from July 5th (included below). -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca (204) 272-9628 / fax: (204) 272-8291 > -Original Message- > From: David Burgess [mailto:apt@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 6:18 AM > To: support@pfs

RE: [pfSense Support] 1:1 multi-homed NAT broken?

2010-07-13 Thread Adam Thompson
I realize this is a corner case that probably isn't (ever?) often tested. Is there a way to limit binat to only affecting one public interface? -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca (204) 272-9628 / fax: (204) 272-8291

RE: [pfSense Support] pfsense 1.2.3 virtual ip proxy arp

2010-07-13 Thread Adam Thompson
This sounds like a use for 1:1 NAT, instead of port forwarding. -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca (204) 272-9628 / fax: (204) 272-8291 > -Original Message- > From: Lluis [mailto:ll...@jad.es] > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 6:41 AM >

[pfSense Support] 1:1 multi-homed NAT broken?

2010-07-08 Thread Adam Thompson
utes to their mail servers pointing back out vlan1 (WAN), but obviously that approach doesn’t scale (and I have to know in advance their outbound mail relay’s IP address!). Any assistance appreciated! -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca<mailto:athom...@c3a.ca> (204) 272-9628 / fax: (204) 272-8291

RE: [pfSense Support] Bandwdith usage since start of month?

2010-07-01 Thread Adam Thompson
t; Give it a try and see if it's still accurate. > > Jim Finally got back to the office and tried it - but the numbers do not seem to match up. Don't know why yet, won't have time to diagnose until tomorrow or the weekend. (In fact, the pkg, the command line, and my ISP'

[pfSense Support] BGP routes vanish after 60 seconds

2010-06-18 Thread Adam Thompson
is unhelpful on this subject.) -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca<mailto:athom...@c3a.ca> (204) 272-9628 / fax: (204) 272-8291

RE: [pfSense Support] Bandwdith usage since start of month?

2010-06-18 Thread Adam Thompson
UI if we can > confirm > that the results are indeed accurate. Well, I can tell you that the numbers returned matched up exactly with what my ISP wants to bill me for :-) -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca (204) 272-9628 / fax: (204) 272-8291

RE: [pfSense Support] Bandwdith usage since start of month?

2010-06-18 Thread Adam Thompson
Thank you very much! I never know how to extract the raw data from rrdlogs, now I know it's actually not that hard. (BTW: the AWK is fine, although you can omit the cut(1) stage in the pipe simply by having awk add up $2 and $3 instead of $1 and $2.) -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Arch

[pfSense Support] Bandwdith usage since start of month?

2010-06-18 Thread Adam Thompson
those graphs but I can't find it now (and I might be remembering something else altogether - who knows). Is there a way to get this information? Thanks, -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca<mailto:athom...@c3a.ca> (204) 272-9628 / fax: (204) 272-8291

RE: [pfSense Support] BGP & ARP problems

2010-06-17 Thread Adam Thompson
This just keeps getting better :-) Just after I sent the last message, I tried a traceroute that showed packets going the wrong way. To my surprise (not) , the kernel routing table was once again emptied of all BGP routes. # netstat -rn | wc -l ; bgpctl show fib | wc -l 8

RE: [pfSense Support] BGP & ARP problems

2010-06-17 Thread Adam Thompson
I added a simple "custom_options" field to /usr/local/pkg/openbgpd.xml and the corresponding code to /usr/local/pkb/openbgpd.inc - although the modifications are trivial, is there a correct way to submit a patch? (BTW: the $config mechanism, coupled with the XML description files, looks quite s

RE: [pfSense Support] BGP & ARP problems

2010-06-17 Thread Adam Thompson
Well, I'm seeing something similar but even odder. The kernel route for the local subnet *appears* to be intact, but various diagnostic tools seem to disagree on that. The pfSense GUI page Diagnostics->Routes shows a fairly small IPv4 routing table (20 routes including host routes for the LAN sub

Re: [pfSense Support] BGP & ARP problems

2010-06-17 Thread Adam Thompson
Yes, it's the next-hop router on OPT1. It's also my BGP peer. -Adam --Original Message-- From: Chris Buechler To: support list, pfSense ReplyTo: support list, pfSense Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] BGP & ARP problems Sent: Jun 17, 2010 15:46 On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at

[pfSense Support] BGP & ARP problems

2010-06-17 Thread Adam Thompson
to fix it? I probably won't be able to reboot until several hours from now. Thanks, -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca<mailto:athom...@c3a.ca> (204) 272-9628 / fax: (204) 272-8291 <>---

Re: [pfSense Support] OPT1 and LAN cannot communicate

2010-06-13 Thread Adam Thompson
(Going from memory here...) Check the "Block RFC1918 addresses" checkbox on the Interface configuration pages. It should be set on WAN but not OPT1 or LAN. -Adam Thompson Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wirele

[pfSense Support] five BGP questions

2010-06-11 Thread Adam Thompson
in the rent. Obviously I'd rather divert traffic that way if it's headed for an academic/research destination! (Yes, this is quite a similar situation to the fellow from South Africa last week, but I already know I can use BGP.) Thank you, -Adam Thompson Chief Technical Architect, C3A Inc. athom...@c3a.ca<mailto:athom...@c3a.ca> (204) 272-9628 x6004 / fax: (204) 272-8291