RE: [pfSense Support] setting time

2008-05-11 Thread Dean Larson
battery appears to be fine. i didn't put a volt meter on it, but when the computer has been off, the cmos info stayed current. i'll take it down on monday, and if it is low on voltage, i'll report back Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:29:39 +1200 From:

RE: [pfSense Support] Where do I put squid ?

2008-05-11 Thread Dean Larson
i think it would be cool to route http traffic to the squid box, but put a rule just infront of it to allow your squid box to go out the firewall. for security i would not allow a second nic to go out the squid box onto the internet. i myself set up the browsers manually for the squid box.

RE: [pfSense Support] setting time

2008-05-10 Thread Dean Larson
right now it is running about 10 minutes fast. i set it to chicago about 30 minutes ago... and time still moves on a head. am i missing something? is there some way of telling the time? what i have been doing is getting a command prompt on the machine and doing date. also i've caused a

RE: [pfSense Support] setting time

2008-05-10 Thread Dean Larson
. Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 10:12:32 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] setting time Have you run: ntpdate pool.ntp.org from the command line? Dean Larson wrote: right now it is running about 10 minutes fast. i set

RE: [pfSense Support] setting time

2008-05-10 Thread Dean Larson
i'll verify the clock on the hardware to verify they are both on the same page. :) Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 11:53:10 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] setting time I have seen some older systems have an

RE: [pfSense Support] setting time

2008-05-10 Thread Dean Larson
bios has no timezone settings. it just has a time. i verified they are both at same time, noticed after reboot, the system time appeared to be set to gmt. so i changed the time zone for pfsense to gmt. no change. time still is off. in 5 minutes time was adjusted -172.599028 s

RE: [pfSense Support] setting time

2008-05-10 Thread Dean Larson
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] setting time On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Dean Larson wrote: i have a cron job of 15 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -u -s tick.usno.navy.mil i did the command you said ntpdate pool.ntp.org. and yes it sets the time, but it doesn't stay. for long. computer

RE: [pfSense Support] setting time

2008-05-10 Thread Dean Larson
-w kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 If it keeps better time, you can add a line to /etc/sysctl.conf (so a reboot will use your new choice): kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254 John On May 10, 2008, at 7:14 PM, Dean Larson wrote: tried flashing the bios... didn't seem to help. i

[pfSense Support] setting time

2008-05-09 Thread Dean Larson
how do you set the time on pfsense? i have checked the openntpd and still the time is wrong. i have written a cron job to set the clock and it doesn't appear to change the clock. it seems to gain time about 15 minutes in 12 hours. what am i doing wrong? how can i fix this? thank you dean