Re: [pfSense Support] Disconnects

2010-12-10 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 12/10/2010 8:39 AM, Jim Pingle wrote: On 12/10/2010 8:30 AM, Nicolas Roussi wrote: During the disconnects I still have access to the admin gui of pfSense from a wireless client but nowhere else. The only entry in the system logs is some ARP messages that state that some MAC address changed

Re: [pfSense Support] User browsing - Access / Reporting

2010-11-22 Thread Curtis Maurand
How about linking the AD leased IP Address against the logfiles? --Curtis On 11/19/2010 9:16 AM, Dominic wrote: Hi All, I am currently using pfSense 1.2.3 with Squid to provide browsing access to users. Until now this has worked perfectly and the Lightsquid package has been used for reporting

[pfSense Support] DNS issue

2010-11-05 Thread Curtis Maurand
I have a DNS server behind a pfsense box. The dns forwarder is enabled (I've tried disabling it.) Without the forwarder, dns queries from behind the pfsense box don't resolve, not ever. With the forwarder dns queries resolve and the active directory works fine as the windows servers forward a

Re: [pfSense Support] Appliance Recommendation for 100 Mbps (DOCSIS 3.0) Service

2010-09-02 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 9/2/2010 11:42 AM, Tim Dickson wrote: Contacting you off the board, as I have questions about the "other" firewall software you carry. What do you think of Vyatta and Untangled? I came from using m0n0wall so naturally recommend pfSense to my clients, but wanted to know if you think ei

Re: [pfSense Support] Appliance Recommendation for 100 Mbps (DOCSIS 3.0) Service

2010-09-02 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 9/1/2010 12:17 PM, Jeppe Øland wrote: I did a similar speed upgrade to find my trusty old WRAP capped out at like 15 mbit. What I ended up getting was a mini-ITX enclosure/PSU: http://www.mini-box.com/M350-enclosure-with-picoPSU-80-and-60W-adapter Supermicro X7SPA-H motherboard (It's fanle

Re: [pfSense Support] PFSENSE 2.0

2010-08-04 Thread Curtis Maurand
On 8/3/2010 11:15 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:22:41AM -0500, Karl Fife wrote: We're going to build up just such a system in just a few months after we close a couple of open projects. Has anyone done this already,& have experience to share? I'm running 3 pfSen

Re: [pfSense Support] cron job to restart racoon ?

2010-07-08 Thread Curtis Maurand
I already played with "prefer old IPSEC" on or off, but this seems not to help. Keep in mind that all the end-nodes are dynamic ip's (and each and every night at 4AM I let them restart the PPPoE at the end nodes) I have a two part cron job. on an inside host I have a perl script that check

Re: [pfSense Support] PFSense advocacy

2009-12-02 Thread Curtis Maurand
Start with cost. There is no cost per seat with pfsense. You don't have the up front cost of an expensive PIX or other Cisco Security product plus the license fees. You don't pay extra for extra features either. It will run quite nicely on a dual core atom based supermicro server from Ne

[pfSense Support] Mailing list admin

2009-11-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
Would the mailing list admin please contact me off list please? Thanks in advance, Curtis Maurand

Re: [pfSense Support] potential pfsense hardware

2009-10-16 Thread Curtis Maurand
Check this one out. It should work just fine. Very inexpensive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101262 Paul Mansfield wrote: On 15/10/09 18:25, Ryan wrote: Does anyone make an atom board with intel onboard. I'd rather intel if i had my choice. I have seen a coupl

Re: [pfSense Support] openVPN to OPT1 interface

2009-06-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
[snip] you need only 2 tunnels for passing 2 subnets from one side to the other I'm only passing one. and this dinky little config shouldn't need paid support to happen.

Re: [pfSense Support] openVPN to OPT1 interface

2009-06-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
[snip] Even more of a reason to consider our offering. The offering is there to help eliminate frustration and to offer the best support possible. Scott I'm not sure $600.00 for a one time thing is worth it. - To unsubsc

Re: [pfSense Support] openVPN to OPT1 interface

2009-06-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
[snip] yes, exactly this way, 2 identical tunnels with different local/remote subnets... Other settings are identical a really impotant thing is, that the remote nets are different from the liocal nets. otherwise it get routing problems Why do I need parallel tunnels when all I nee

Re: [pfSense Support] openVPN to OPT1 interface

2009-06-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
Scott Ullrich wrote: [snip] If you are under those types of time constraints then you really should consider our commercial support offering. This shouldn't be that difficult. I've been doing this configuration on an OpenRoute GT900 for over a year. I set it up in a couple of hours. I se

Re: [pfSense Support] openVPN to OPT1 interface

2009-06-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
Scott Ullrich wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote: Interesting. I had wished I could make that scenario work w/ipsec. Alas, no joy. I had to set up a vyatta to do it and it worked flawlessly out of the box. I didn't need a third NIC port to do it, either

Re: [pfSense Support] openVPN to OPT1 interface

2009-06-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
I have configured 2 IPSEC-VPN-Tunnels between 2 Boxes for such a scenario. Works like a charm. michael I had two subnets. I had machines on both subnets. The opt1 interface could not be pinged and was generally dropping packets. If I can't communicate locally with some sort of rel

Re: [pfSense Support] openVPN to OPT1 interface

2009-06-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
Interesting. I had wished I could make that scenario work w/ipsec. Alas, no joy. I had to set up a vyatta to do it and it worked flawlessly out of the box. I didn't need a third NIC port to do it, either. My thinking is that BSD doesn't handle virtual interfaces very well. *sigh* I like

Re: [pfSense Support] Interface wierdness

2009-06-25 Thread Curtis Maurand
Tim Nelson wrote: - "Curtis Maurand" wrote: > have a public IP on em1 > I have a private IP on em2 (10.0.1.10/24) > I have a private ip on OPT1 (10.201.17.1/28) > > Normally I would have the OPT interface in a DMZ, but constraints aren't allowing me to do that

[pfSense Support] Interface wierdness

2009-06-25 Thread Curtis Maurand
have a public IP on em1 I have a private IP on em2 (10.0.1.10/24) I have a private ip on OPT1 (10.201.17.1/28) Normally I would have the OPT interface in a DMZ, but constraints aren't allowing me to do that so the OPT1 interface is also plugged in on the local LAN as well. I've assigned a s

[pfSense Support] Feature Requests

2009-06-05 Thread Curtis Maurand
Where can we make feature requests? I don't see anything on the website about what on the roadmap or what's coming. I also can't seem to find any decent documentation on the atrocious way it handles virtual IP addresses. What I would rather see is virtual interfaces. --Curtis

[pfSense Support] Adding a second IP to the LAN interface

2009-05-28 Thread Curtis Maurand
ong in the pfsense config or is pfsense not capable of this arrangement? If its the latter, I understand and will purchase another NIC to make it happen. Thanks in advance, Curtis Maurand

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Bandwidth problems/collisions/packet loss

2009-01-16 Thread Curtis Maurand
I've found that if you manually configure your (the pfsense) interface connnected to a cisco switch to full duplex, the cisco will adjust. For whatever reason, cisco switches tend to default to half duplex during the negotiation. Go figure. --Curtis Maurand Head Honcho Xyonet Web Ho

Re: [pfSense Support] Sizing for Throughput up to 6Gbit/s

2008-12-05 Thread Curtis Maurand
the last time I checked out the guts of a Cisco PIX, I found that it was nothing more than commodity PC hardware with an Intel processor. I don't know if that's changed, or not. BSD is very good a pushing packets around and the middle of 11Gbps is 5.5Gbps and that's not far off the number h

Re: [pfSense Support] secondary or virtual IP's

2008-05-21 Thread Curtis Maurand
kup to the hardware router. Note that I've been able to add a third network card and make it work that way, but I was hoping that I wouldn't have to. Thanks, Curtis Curtis Maurand Head Honcho Xyonet Webhosting Services 6 Evergreen Lane Biddeford, ME 04005 http://www.xyone

[pfSense Support] secondary or virtual IP's

2008-05-20 Thread Curtis Maurand
nterface? Thanks in advance, Curtis Maurand Curtis Maurand Head Honcho Xyonet Webhosting Services 6 Evergreen Lane Biddeford, ME 04005 http://www.xyonet.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 207.252.7748

Re: [pfSense Support] SOLVED - Strange problem

2008-04-17 Thread Curtis Maurand
curtis, what was the previous setting? sai On 4/8/08, Curtis Maurand < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: The problem turned out to be packet state maintenance. I set it to "Keep State" for all of my rules having to do with NAT and tunnels and it solved all of the problems. It

Re: [pfSense Support] Wanted: Tips for a VLAN capable switch (for home use)

2008-04-07 Thread Curtis Maurand
Linksys has a couple of very nice models as does Adtran. Curtis Maurand Head Honcho Xyonet Webhosting Services 6 Evergreen Lane Biddeford, ME 04005 http://www.xyonet.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 207.252.7748 - Original Message - From: "Paul M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [pfSense Support] SOLVED - Strange problem

2008-04-07 Thread Curtis Maurand
2003 Server didn't seem to care about the setting. Thank you to all who had suggestions on these two problems. Sincerely, Curtis Maurand - Original Message - From: "RB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:15:34 PM

Re: [pfSense Support] vista pptp client

2008-03-20 Thread Curtis Maurand
I'll give that a try. Thanks, Curtis - Original Message - From: "Curtis LaMasters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:01:11 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] vista pptp client Try this: 1) Open Command promp

[pfSense Support] vista pptp client

2008-03-20 Thread Curtis Maurand
llow PPTP to pass through. Thanks, Curtis -- Curtis Maurand Head Honcho Xyonet Webhosting Services 6 Evergreen Lane Biddeford, ME 04005 http://www.xyonet.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 207.252.7748

Re: [pfSense Support] Multiple VPN compatible with Micro$oft

2008-03-18 Thread Curtis Maurand
ty enhancements" on vista is the culprit. but I don't have a copy to test with. Curtis Maurand Head Honcho Xyonet Webhosting Services 6 Evergreen Lane Biddeford, ME 04005 http://www.xyonet.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 207.252.7748 - Original Message - From: &quo

Re: [pfSense Support] Strange problem

2008-03-18 Thread Curtis Maurand
PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Strange problem On 3/18/08, Curtis Maurand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like I said, it works fine on the same hardware if I run Windows, but not if > I run Linux. I've used IE and firefox on Windows, IE, firefox,

Re: [pfSense Support] Strange problem

2008-03-18 Thread Curtis Maurand
Like I said, it works fine on the same hardware if I run Windows, but not if I run Linux. I've used IE and firefox on Windows, IE, firefox, epiphany and konqueror on Linux. I wish I had a MAC to test with. :-( Curtis - Original Message - From: "RB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: support@pf

[pfSense Support] Strange problem

2008-03-18 Thread Curtis Maurand
. As my customer uses only Windows machines in the house it hasn't been a problem. I do have a couple of wierd rules set up to give priority to VPN and VOIP traffic. Vista and PPTP is another topic. :-) any help is apppreciated. Thanks, Curtis -- Curtis Maurand Head Honcho Xyonet Web

Re: [pfSense Support] DELL PE860 + PFSense

2007-01-24 Thread Curtis Maurand
e violently with each other, resulting in extreme slow network and disk performance. Disabling the bge NIC and replacing with an Intel server NIC PCI card solved that nicely. If you wait until monday I can let you know if the PE860 boots freebsd. :-) -- Curtis Maurand Senior Network &

Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense using 4 nics?

2006-10-24 Thread Curtis Maurand
happened in linux when adding/removing > nics (and dmesg is useless when trying to figure out just what eth0 > actually is). > > --Bill > > --------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands,