Re: [pfSense Support] 1.2.3RC1 embedded: wireless communication with Nokia N97 stops after a few KB but the connection desn't drop

2009-07-16 Thread Paul M
Angelo wrote: > > I have a weird wireless connection issue with my new Nokia N97, hope ... > > Yesterday I bought a Nokia N97 and as soon as I came back home I started > > playing with it. I joined my wireless network and typed the PSK and the Hi Angelo, there's definitely something odd in the lat

Re: [pfSense Support] FTP helper timeouts

2009-03-30 Thread Paul M
Joe Laffey wrote: I am transferring about one thousand smaller (1.4Mb) files - SD video frames. Have you sufficient states enabled in pfsense? I'd suggest switching to using rsync IIWY... however, where you have to use ftp then leechftp is quite good as it can be set to only download files

Re: [pfSense Support] em0: Watchdog timeout -- resetting

2009-01-04 Thread Paul M
Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > The error I am seeing is "em0: Watchdog Timeout -- Resetting", which > seems to have several root causes. I have tried disabling ACPI, both in we had this, it was very odd, it only started happening when we upgraded the bios on a tyan motherboard to fix other problems,

Re: [pfSense Support] Openvpn - same client ip with users.

2008-11-15 Thread Paul M
gt; dev tun > dev-node ovpn > #proto tcp-client > remote x.x.x.x 1194 > ping 10 > persist-tun > persist-key > tls-client > ca ezat.crt > cert ezat.crt > key ezat.key > ns-cert-type server > comp-lzo > pull > verb 4 > > Off to get some shuteye... 2am here in

Re: [pfSense Support] Openvpn - same client ip with users.

2008-11-15 Thread Paul M
Ezat wrote: > Thanks Paul, > > The config looks sane to me.. Ive rebooted the device but still no go. I've compared your config closely with mine, so it has to be the client config. Here's my definitively working client config: client log /etc/openvpn/client.log status /etc

Re: [pfSense Support] OpenVPN super-slow upload speeds

2008-10-25 Thread Paul M
>>> on OpenVPN from home - using Tunnelblick on my DSL (6mbit down 768 up). OT: we've started switching Mac OSX users to viscosity, much nicer/easier to use - a proper OSX application instead of a simple GUI to openvpn executable. It will also import tunnelblick settings too. It does have a pro

Re: [pfSense Support] OpenVPN Tunnel "Quality" with VoIP Applications

2008-09-19 Thread Paul M
Tim Nelson wrote: MTU doesn't appear to be the problem here. in this case X-Lite. Soft phones maybe try SJPhone instead? Or boot a linux CD and try k-phone (or ekiga or jingle or whatever its called these days)? - To unsub

Re: [pfSense Support] Why DHCP and portal logs are limited to 65535octets?

2008-05-19 Thread Paul M
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Re: [pfSense Support] Why DHCP and portal logs are limited to 65535 octets?

2008-05-19 Thread Paul M
Xhark wrote: It's not configured in conf file ? Possible to syslog loopback 127.0.0.1 with special package ? future releases will make syslog bind only to 127.0.0.1 so that you can have syslog-ng running in parallel - see my other posts about this. --

Re: [pfSense Support] Why DHCP and portal logs are limited to 65535 octets?

2008-05-16 Thread Paul M
Gary Buckmaster wrote: This is intentional as part of the design of m0n0wall, which pfSense inherited. pfSense uses clog for system logging and all logs are kept in a circular format so as not to consume limited disk space available to embedded systems. The work-around for this is to use a re

Re: [pfSense Support] Virtualizing pfSense

2008-05-16 Thread Paul M
Make Windows Vista more reliable and secure with Windows Vista Service I thought it was one of those witty tag-lines along "Make Vista more http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2146586273/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [pfSense Support] bsdperimeter.com down -- what is the state of commercial support for pfSense?

2008-05-09 Thread Paul M
Timo Schoeler wrote: thus Chris Buechler spake: On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Timo Schoeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, I'm about to sell a bunch of pfSense-based Firewalls to a customer (who wants to run a nice loadbalanced setup). What about commercial support? bsdperimeter.com i

Re: [pfSense Support] How to tell current OpenVPN clients

2008-05-08 Thread Paul M
Merul Patel wrote: If my PHP were worth more than diddly squat I'd be tempted to write something. sounds like an excuse to learn a bit of php! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMA

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-07 Thread Paul M
people have already suggested booting the live CD with the config on USB, so that problem's solved. try www.bootdisk.com for useful stuff, and I recommend Ultimate Boot CD as a valuable resource. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ --

Re: [pfSense Support] Block port http for single ip

2008-04-23 Thread Paul M
Toto wrote: > help me !!! > > i want ip 192.168.1.2 colud not open web but only do mail access. how to > setup in pfsense to do it? > > thank for your help you probably want to consider a simple solution like a linksys router as it seems pfsense is going to be too complex for you at the moment

Re: [pfSense Support] Pfsense problem..

2008-04-18 Thread Paul M
Daniel Rapp wrote: > Hi, we have two firewalls running pfsense, theay are running version 1.2-rc2 > embedded 1.2 release has been out for quite a while and you should strong consider updating, even though it wont fix your bridging

Re: [pfSense Support] Who has some good numbers to share for load balancing?

2008-04-17 Thread Paul M
Wade Blackwell wrote: > -intelligent load balancing of TCP services (fail a load balanced > node/server out of the pool when the service fails) the load balancing does detect failed back-ends but only if they cease listening on their TCP sockets, there's no content checking, so you can't detect,

Re: [pfSense Support] multiple openvpn clients using shared key?

2008-04-14 Thread Paul M
Paul M wrote: > to answer my own question, no, you can't use shared key and have > multiple clients. OK, so I was being lazy!!! > > I generated the keys using the instructions here: > http://openvpn.net/howto.html#pki > > note. I found I had two sets of easy-rsa scrip

Re: [pfSense Support] System Time

2008-04-10 Thread Paul M
Curtis LaMasters wrote: > status.php probably has it somewhere. If not you could issue a command > via the GUI in the diagnostic menu. it does. it would probably be useful to have the system time on the index.php system summary page? how would you browse to status.php, there doesn't seem to be

Re: [pfSense Support] More Ethernet ports on a pfsense box

2008-04-09 Thread Paul M
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > I am looking to get more Ethernet ports into a pfsense box, and can see 2 > options. > > 1: Buy a 4-port PCI card (not those which only have a hub, obviously). > They're pretty expensive compared with single cards that also just work. Can > someone recommend a cheap one wh

Re: AW: [pfSense Support] Filtering OpenVPN Road Warrior Clients

2008-04-07 Thread Paul M
because you can't specify filters on openvpn clients, we simply built a separate box which is a dedicated openvpn server; this also means we can keep our main firewalls locked down better and the openvpn clients come in via a DMZ which gives better tracking. --

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

2008-04-07 Thread Paul M
I'm surprised noone's mentioned any of the Dell's, which I believe are rebranded Huawei. Some people rate them highly, but the professional net engineers I know consider them to be a bit troublesome. They're also nowhere near as cheap as they used to be. --

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

2008-04-04 Thread Paul M
Eugen Leitl wrote: > I have a Netgear ProSafe GS108T-xy, which is GBit, managed, > and fanless. You might have to upgrade the latest firmware, > as Netgear consumer stuff is typically buggy in the first > generation, and the support sucks. let me help you... s/first generation//g

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

2008-04-04 Thread Paul M
a second hand cisco 2950 would be quite cheap on ebay, the gigabit 2960g (I think) might be getting too pricey. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [pfSense Support] multiple openvpn clients using shared key?

2008-04-03 Thread Paul M
Paul M wrote: > Curtis LaMasters wrote: >> Is this client connected over wireless? That looks like a TKIP replay >> error and not really anything to do with OpenVPN. To have multiple >> people connecting with the same key in OpenVPN you will need to use >> "duplic

Re: [pfSense Support] multiple openvpn clients using shared key?

2008-04-02 Thread Paul M
Curtis LaMasters wrote: > Is this client connected over wireless? That looks like a TKIP replay > error and not really anything to do with OpenVPN. To have multiple > people connecting with the same key in OpenVPN you will need to use > "duplicate-cn" on the server side under custom options. no,

[pfSense Support] multiple openvpn clients using shared key?

2008-04-02 Thread Paul M
I've set up a bunch of openvpn daemons on a separate server, so that each person who connects gets a distinct IP address allowing me to give very fin-grained control over who can access what when connecting remotely. I am using shared keys for simplicity. I allocated a /29 (block of 8) IPs to ea

Re: [pfSense Support] openvpn tunnel using public ip's from 1 side

2008-04-02 Thread Paul M
Chris Flugstad wrote: > In my colo, where I have lots of public IPs, and my openvpn server, id > like to use these ip's at a remote location on the other end of a vpn I think you'd have to use a userspace redirection program like jumpgate. -

Re: [pfSense Support] No routing between internal zones

2008-03-27 Thread Paul M
Tim Nelson wrote: > I'd throw a nice big "ALLOW ANY PROTOCOL ANY DESTINATION ANYWHERE AND > EVERYWHERE" at the top of your rules and see if the problem is fixed. If not, > you've got bigger problems. If so, check your rules a bit more carefully. > ouch! don't you come near my firewalls! if you

Re: [pfSense Support] unexpected network throughput

2008-03-27 Thread Paul M
Eric Baenen wrote: > Using scp -c blowfish definitely improved things - went from 60Mbps > transfer to 70Mbps and cpu load on the pfSense firewalls varied from 50% > to 70%. interesting, I tried this across our lanex and got 20MB/s default (3des), 24MB using blowfish, and 29MB/s using plain old de

Re: [pfSense Support] Seagate Microdrive 8GB

2008-03-27 Thread Paul M
Michel Servaes wrote: > microdrive)... but it seems the drive cannot be found with the installer > of pfsense. > I can however format and install Windows 2003 if I want to (I cancelled > the install, since this is not the use I intended it to be on this > machine- but this is just to mention that t

Re: [pfSense Support] Strange problem

2008-03-19 Thread Paul M
Curtis Maurand wrote: > No iptables. wasn't even installed until 2 minutes ago. No http proxy > statements very generic gentoo installation on the laptop. I have not > tried wget, but I did try telnet to a host on port 80 and the connection > hung. I had to do a ^] to get out of it. I have not

Re: [pfSense Support] Microdrive or CF card

2008-03-18 Thread Paul M
Eugen Leitl wrote: >> Noise: I think the microdrive is next to silent. > > IIRC reliability is a problem. I've never heard the microdrive in my zaurus c3100, and I can't remember the last time I heard of one fail! damn, I've just doomed myself, haven't I? --

Re: [pfSense Support] Trouble installing on old Dell 6450

2008-03-10 Thread Paul M
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > FreeSBIE also freezes. it sits at the line "Trying to mount root from > cd9660:/dev/iso9660/FreeSBIE" > I can scroll back thru the loader but it will not go any farther and I > don't see any activity on the CD drive. have you got 32bit access enabled in the BIOS? can you c

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Typo in 1.2 Release RRD?

2008-03-04 Thread Paul M
Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Jason J. Ellingson wrote: >> I see on my RRD graphs for traffic (haven't looked elsewhere yet)... >> that the last 6 month graph is showing "Nov" twice and skipping "Feb". >> >> At the bottom of the graph, I see: >> >> Sep Oct Nov Nov Dec Jan Mar >> >> Perhaps just min

Re: [pfSense Support] IPSEC

2008-03-04 Thread Paul M
Bryan Derman wrote: > If curl is available on the development disk (or somewhere) and was > installed on the production version, the script could easily be modified login as root and install it thus? # curl curl: Command not found. # pkg_add -r curl Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/por

Re: [pfSense Support] pfSense Hardware opinion

2008-02-29 Thread Paul M
Nuno Gonçalves wrote: > DELL PowerEdge R200 > Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X3210, 2.13GHz OR Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X3210, > 2.13GHz > 2 Gigabit nics > 2GB RAM 667MHz dual rank ECC (2x1GB) > 160GB SATA 7200rpm probably far more than you need, though admittedly we are running with pairs of machines of

[pfSense Support] wrong email addresses on mail list page

2008-02-29 Thread Paul M
http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=66&Itemid=71 the unsubscribe email address is incorrect in the href for support-unsubscribe, it's the same as the subscribe one! HTH Paul - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [pfSense Support] Ping

2008-02-29 Thread Paul M
Anil Garg wrote: > In my pass-through for PPTP and IPSEC, I had a rule that allowed > any...all..any for only TCP IP protocol. > I have now changed that to any protocol all the way to the end any. > Is this ok on the VPN interfaces like PPTP and IPSEC? adding rules which permit any-any, even i

Re: [pfSense Support] enabling high performance tcp - freebsd

2008-02-22 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: > On 2/21/08, Paul M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> apparently since kernel 2.6.17 linux auto-tunes, so this advice is a bit >> out of date... in fact it might be really bad advice because usign >> setsockopt and setting RCVBUF and SNDBUF will

Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense crashed out

2008-02-21 Thread Paul M
Ngawang Sangye wrote: > There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:191: rule label > too long (max 63 chars) pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not > loaded - The line in question reads [191]: pass in quick on $wan proto { > tcp udp } from any to { 192.168.2.58 } port = 36239

Re: [pfSense Support] enabling high performance tcp - freebsd

2008-02-21 Thread Paul M
William Armstrong wrote: > Squeeze Your Gigabit NIC for Top Performance > > http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3485486 apparently since kernel 2.6.17 linux auto-tunes, so this advice is a bit out of date... in fact it might be really bad advice because usign setsockopt

Re: [pfSense Support] syslogd parameters in /etc/inc/system.inc

2008-02-18 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: > I will look into it. In the future, please see this for submitting > patches: http://devwiki.pfsense.org/SubmittingPatches sorry I stand corrected - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addition

Re: [pfSense Support] bug report - missing network device still listed as up

2008-02-18 Thread Paul M
Ermal Luçi wrote: > Can you please open a ticket for this! done http://cvstrac.pfsense.com/tktview?tn=1652,6 > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Paul M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is this a known bug? >> >> when you remove a network device from a work

[pfSense Support] syslogd parameters in /etc/inc/system.inc

2008-02-18 Thread Paul M
can the system script be modified, please to tell syslogd to only bind to localhost? # diff system.inc.orig system.inc 412c412 < $retval = mwexec("/usr/sbin/syslogd -s -f {$g['varetc_path']}/syslog.conf"); --- > $retval = mwexec("/usr/sbin/syslogd -b 127.0.0.1 -s -f {$

[pfSense Support] bug report - missing network device still listed as up

2008-02-14 Thread Paul M
Is this a known bug? when you remove a network device from a working configured pfsense 1.2rc4 machine, it still boots up, and the web UI interface summary says the device is up, but has no details (no mac, no IP, etc) we discovered this when one of our firewall servers died, and problem was the

[pfSense Support] enabling high performance tcp - freebsd

2008-02-13 Thread Paul M
http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/#FreeBSD this has some recommendations for setting options in freebsd to improve network performance; I don't know whether it's current wisdom though. the stuff about linux kernel autotuning is quite interesting, especvally where it says to not use

[pfSense Support] carp status page wish

2008-02-11 Thread Paul M
Hi, would it be possible to have the carp status page also show the carp description field, as as the moment it's not very informative. AtDhVaAnNkCsE Paul - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-m

[pfSense Support] 1.2RC5 or release

2008-02-11 Thread Paul M
Hi, given the a number of minor bug fixes, we will be seeing a 1.2RC5 variant sometime, or is the next step a full release? thanks Paul - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [pfSense Support] BGP status

2008-02-11 Thread Paul M
Royce Mitchell III wrote: > Is the BGP package for pfsense available, yet? > > Also, does it play nice with CARP, or is CARP even necessary when you > have BGP? I think CARP is a very different thing - BGP is a way of having multiple circuits to different ISPs to get resilience internet connectiv

Re: [pfSense Support] Multiple servers behind NAT'd firewall

2008-02-07 Thread Paul M
I'm not 100% sure, but I've noticed that if you create a new CARP entry on the WAN, the nat reflection doesn't get set up until you make some other change. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-m

Re: [pfSense Support] router failover

2008-02-06 Thread Paul M
Curtis LaMasters wrote: > I've been operating in this configuration for 6 months in two locations > without a problem. The version upgrade went very nicely as well because > I could fail over to the 2nd firewall, do the upgrade and reboot without > taking down the network. We are running on Dell

[pfSense Support] minor fix/request: button positions on NAT page compared to rules

2008-01-31 Thread Paul M
on the nat page, the buttons to the right of the nat look like this E < + on the rules page, the buttons to the right are < E X + maybe I'm being fussy, but could the nat page be changed to suit the rules? thanks! Paul

Re: [pfSense Support] possible bug in filter rule replication

2008-01-31 Thread Paul M
Gary Buckmaster wrote: > Paul M wrote: >> I've noticed that if I have a pair of firewalls - master/slave - and >> have a comment in the filter rules which contains a colon or a fullstop, >> they are replaced by spaces when the rules are replicated. >> >> is t

[pfSense Support] possible bug in filter rule replication

2008-01-31 Thread Paul M
I've noticed that if I have a pair of firewalls - master/slave - and have a comment in the filter rules which contains a colon or a fullstop, they are replaced by spaces when the rules are replicated. is this a known bug? - To u

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: IPv6

2008-01-31 Thread Paul M
Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:19:21PM +0200, Graham Beneke wrote: >> While I can appreciate that this is an issue of supply vs demand - I >> would like to say that I think that it would be in the best interests of >> the project to aim for at least an IPv6 capable beta release b

Re: [pfSense Support] Fresh Install -- Broken logging

2008-01-31 Thread Paul M
Jack Doyle wrote: > I've just reinstalled (fresh this time) 1.2-RC4 and logging has, once > again, stopped. The last log entry I have anywhere is at 16:22 (it is > now 18:28). I just generated some traffic that should be logged and > it is not. This includes the system log, firewall log, DHCP lo

Re: [pfSense Support] nat labelling bug?

2008-01-30 Thread Paul M
Chris Buechler wrote: >> There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:149: rule label ... > Looks like a missing or incorrect input validation check, can you open a > ticket at http://cvstrac.pfsense.org please? done! http://cvstrac.pfsense.com/tktview?tn=1619 --

[pfSense Support] nat labelling bug?

2008-01-30 Thread Paul M
I was created a nat rule's equivalent filter rule and got the error below. Is this a known bug? There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:149: rule label too long (max 63 chars)pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded - The line in question reads [149]: pass in quick o

Re: [pfSense Support] VLAN NIC's

2008-01-30 Thread Paul M
Paul Cockings wrote: > Many thanks for the quick responses :-) > p.s. the twin-port gigabit NIC cards work very well too. oh, yes, I am using PCI-X cards, the single-port ones are modest price, the dual-port ones are quite pricey (GBP110-ish or US$220). I have also used some broadcom twin-port N

Re: [pfSense Support] VLAN NIC's

2008-01-30 Thread Paul M
Curtis LaMasters wrote: > I agree with Ngawang, Intel is the way to go for a well supported NIC. > The pfSense website has a HCL on it for FreeBSD at > http://pfsense.com/index.php?id=37. Let us know if you have any issues. > > Curtis me too! however, be warned, if you need jumbo frame support

Re: [pfSense Support] WG: Why there is no possibility to Filter the Firewallogs per Day/Week/Source IP etc.?

2008-01-29 Thread Paul M
Marco Henggeler wrote: > Now without Cert... > > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Marco Henggeler > Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 11:11 > An: 'support@pfsense.com' > Betreff: WG: Why there is no possibility to Filter the Firewallogs per > Day/Week/Source IP etc.? > > Under "Diagno

Re: [pfSense Support] Alternative Full Install Installation Methods

2008-01-28 Thread Paul M
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to do a full install of pfSense onto a CF card. I have could you create a file of the right size, loopback mount it as a file system and install to that, tweak it as much as you want, and then 'dd' it to the CF card?

Re: [pfSense Support] 1.2rc4 fresh install - waiting for backend

2008-01-25 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: >> turned blue with a top grey bar saying "F10 to refresh" and a bar at the >> bottom saying "Waiting for backed". >> any ideas what to look for? > > Not sure but please tell us every step of the boot process you take. > What assigned interfaces you selected, etc. > > Also i

[pfSense Support] 1.2rc4 fresh install - waiting for backend

2008-01-25 Thread Paul M
we had a test core2due/1.8G tyan machine running 1.2rc3 which upgraded without a hitch, however, we wanted to use it for something else, so it got wiped. we then tried to install 1.2rc4, booted fine from cdrom, chose option99 (no network cables being plugged in) and the screen turned blue with a t

Re: [pfSense Support] Attempting to install pfSense; gets stuck

2008-01-25 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: > That portion of the installer takes quite a while depending on speed > of the CF card, etc. Give it a bit longer. I presume the CF card is mounted noatime,async (or whatever it is in freebsd, I am thinking linux here)? I found that async makes a huge difference in speed -

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: Log problems

2008-01-24 Thread Paul M
Jack Doyle wrote: > Yes, I did that with the old version, too, and it stopped logging > after a short while. what happens if you kill and restart syslogd? does logging restart, or is the problem upstream? - To unsubscribe, e-mai

Re: [pfSense Support] Intermediate CA in pfSense Captive Portal

2008-01-23 Thread Paul M
Richard Sperry wrote: > FYI Godaddy has certs for 14.95USD vs verisign, etc at 150ish. Other than > making sure the chain is right, I have had no issues. I bought a wildcard ssl cert for not much more than that, and so I could use in all my firewalls as well as mail servers etc. --

Re: [pfSense Support] Making a VPN Connection

2008-01-21 Thread Paul M
Ryan Neily wrote: > *_Return Receipt_* I emailed the guy to suggest he turn off his auto-acknowledge. sigh. But I wish people wouldn't post to the list with delivery status notifications and html etc etc. - To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: [pfSense Support] Odd Application Behavior Requirement

2008-01-18 Thread Paul M
Curtis LaMasters wrote: > I have a client that that has an application server being installed very > soon that will require them to send and email to a server that is on the can't you use a different DNS server (or use "views" - http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch7/view.html ), or hack the hosts fi

Re: [pfSense Support] Dropped WAN connections

2008-01-18 Thread Paul M
Ron Lemon wrote: > I have a satellite internet connection, both in and out, attached to a > pfSense 1.2RC3 box. long ago when I played with a satellite internet link, it was windows only, and required some special software on the windows box which spoofed the 3 way handshake and also ACKs to give

Re: [pfSense Support] RE: [pfSense-discussion] 1.2-RC4 released!

2008-01-18 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: > hearing of this problem and 1.2-RC4 has been downloaded thousands of > times already. I know that you may have encountered a problem but > please do not spread FUD, thanks. 1.2RC4 upgrade on a regular server worked for us faultlessly; pfSense gets better and better! The c

Re: [pfSense Support] log rotation - keeping logs on x86 server as well as pushing via syslog

2008-01-08 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: > Replace pfSense's syslogd with a stock FreeBSD's syslog and then edit > /etc/rc and remove the clog statements. Just remember every time you > update you'll have to go through this song and dance. might I offer this patch to the /etc/rc file which detects if syslog-ng is in

Re: [pfSense Support] log rotation - keeping logs on x86 server as well as pushing via syslog

2008-01-08 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: > pfSense does not use newsyslog. It uses clog + syslogd. > >> is there any way, even with a slight kludge, to have regular log files >> which rotate in a normal way with pfsense? > > Replace pfSense's syslogd with a stock FreeBSD's syslog and then edit ah, marvellous, thank

[pfSense Support] log rotation - keeping logs on x86 server as well as pushing via syslog

2008-01-07 Thread Paul M
sorry to bring this up again, there was a brief discussion a while back, but I just wanted to clarify. we've got lots of disk space on our firewalls (100+ GB!), so that we don't need to worry about minimising logging, and also so that old logs can be archived at our leisure. however, pfsense roll

[pfSense Support] user interface bug with minimum font size set

2008-01-04 Thread Paul M
is this a known feature/bug? using firefox on linux and setting minimum font size to 13, and the metallic theme on pfsense 1.2RC3, I find that the diagnostics "tab" wraps off the end and appears under the system tab, and then you can't access anything under the system tab any more. this confused

Re: [pfSense Support] Squidguard blocks all traffic

2008-01-02 Thread Paul M
Christopher Iarocci wrote: > I entered in a ticket because they are currently in RC status and I thought ... > Devs, > > Please slap me if I did the wrong thing. My heart was in the right place. just publish your pfSense box's IP, and then your punishment can then be to have your firewall tes

Re: [pfSense Support] relayd - was Re: [pfSense Support] hoststated

2007-12-20 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: > On Dec 20, 2007 6:01 AM, Paul M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> if relayd exists in freebsd ports, I will consider looking into doing > I can get it ported over for you very easily. Should not be hard to > turn it into a FreeBSD port as well. I just d

[pfSense Support] relayd - was Re: [pfSense Support] hoststated

2007-12-20 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: > Well now it would be relayd since hostated has been renamed. I would > love to add this for 1.3 but unfortunately a lot of projects are > piling up that might prevent me from working on this particular item > in time for 1.3. if relayd exists in freebsd ports, I will consi

[pfSense Support] hoststated - was Re: [pfSense Support] haproxy on a pfsense box?

2007-12-19 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: > On Nov 22, 2007 5:29 AM, Paul M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> is there a port of haproxy (or equivalent) to run on pfsense, and if so >> does it work reliably? ... >> we previously used pound as a load balancer and it works well, but we ... >

Re: [pfSense Support] PPTP VPN

2007-12-17 Thread Paul M
Richard Sperry wrote: > Did you change the “use default gateway.” > arrggghhh! HTML and advertising! stop the pain! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [pfSense Support] Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Copper PCI-E Support?

2007-12-13 Thread Paul M
Tim Nelson wrote: > Does pfSense (any version) support any of Intel's quad port gigabit cards for > PCI-E? I'm looking specifically at the PRO/1000PT that uses the 82571GB > chipset. The FreeBSD HCL lists this controller but I was hoping to see if > anyone had used it successfully on pfSense. Th

Re: [pfSense Support] 1.2RC3 OpenVPN

2007-12-03 Thread Paul M
Jason J. Ellingson wrote: > in /var/etc/openvpn_client0.conf:14: remote (2.0.6) ... > remote the syntax for a typical remote line would be remote a.b.c.d 1194 where a.b.c.d would be a public IP address. try editing the entry for the first vpn server or client? -

Re: [pfSense Support] Symlink gone after power outage

2007-11-30 Thread Paul M
1.2-rc1 I found was totally unusable with carp. 1.2-rc2 was OK once running, but it was vital to ensure you knew how to recover from crash/reboot/loss of config.xml if you were changing carp 1.2-rc3 has been much much better, you still need to be careful overall, for us CARP is a vital component o

Re: [pfSense Support] OpenVPN Practical Application

2007-11-26 Thread Paul M
Curtis LaMasters wrote: > This weekend I've been reading a lot about OpenVPN on pfSense and > OpenVPN in general. I guess I still have a few missing parts in my head > because I can't connect the dots. Is OpenVPN a viable replacement for > the Cisco VPN software and IPSec services on a PIX/ASA or

Re: [pfSense Support] Symlink gone after power outage

2007-11-24 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: > On Nov 23, 2007 7:34 AM, Christian Krützfeldt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The other day I had an unexpected power outage and then when it was back on >> pfsense (1.2 RC2) didn't work. >> >> It booted fine until the point where it wanted to start pfsense. The hard >> disk

Re: [pfSense Support] Split DNS LAN/DMZ

2007-11-23 Thread Paul M
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Thu 22 Nov 2007 17:04:02 NZDT +1300, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > >> Use split-horizon DNS, > > Sure, how do I do this with pfsense? I can't find any docs about it and the > DNS forwarder config page doesn't mention any interfaces (1.2RC3). just use different views? http://

[pfSense Support] haproxy on a pfsense box?

2007-11-22 Thread Paul M
is there a port of haproxy (or equivalent) to run on pfsense, and if so does it work reliably? we previously used pound as a load balancer and it works well, but we need a load balancer which can do more than just detect that there's a tcp listener, in case our web app stops working but still list

Re: [pfSense Support] openvpn Question hope someone can help...

2007-11-21 Thread Paul M
Tom Bishop wrote: > I have done a tcpdump, I don't see the return packets...thats the > troubling part > > On Nov 20, 2007 8:13 AM, Paul M <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Tom Bishop wrote: > > Ok this one

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: pfSense with 3 internal VLANs?

2007-11-21 Thread Paul M
Angelo Turetta wrote: > Curtis LaMasters wrote: >> and Firewall myself, however, I'm still having problems with the VLAN >> config. I would like the LAN interface to be VLAN1. Please let me >> know if you have any questions, or if I missed something. > > Curtis, this is quite easy to do. I manag

Re: [pfSense Support] suggestion change to UI - locking pages on slave firewalls

2007-11-21 Thread Paul M
Chris Buechler wrote: > Scott Ullrich wrote: >> On 11/20/07, Paul M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> two firewalls, fwa, fwb, fwa is the master and replicated to fwb >>> Could there be added in the UI (advanced options maybe) a flag to >>> indicate that this

Re: [pfSense Support] openvpn Question hope someone can help...

2007-11-20 Thread Paul M
Tom Bishop wrote: > Ok this one has been bugging me for sometime, I'm new to Pfsense (looks > nice btw ;) I have been testing several of the firewall products to > find one that will meet most of my needs for some work that I need > done. One of the issues I have come across is that when I try t

[pfSense Support] suggestion change to UI - locking pages on slave firewalls

2007-11-20 Thread Paul M
two firewalls, fwa, fwb, fwa is the master and replicated to fwb I made the mistake of modifying something on fwb, and then of course had to go back and reproduce the changes on fwa. Could there be added in the UI (advanced options maybe) a flag to indicate that this FW is a slave, and then grey

Re: [pfSense Support] ping oddness

2007-11-16 Thread Paul M
Joe Laffey wrote: > Hi, > > > When I ping www.apple.com at 17.112.152.32 from my pfsense box (from the > shell) I am getting rtts of around 500ms. When I ping the same ip (not > dnsname) from a box on my DMZ I am getting 50ms rtts. > > Any clue what is causing this? I tried disabling the traffic

Re: [pfSense Support] tuning incoming load balancer

2007-11-13 Thread Paul M
Bill Marquette wrote: On 9/25/07, Bill Marquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: no, it says the IP is already in the list and refuses to add it; I guess that javascript could be changed to say "are you sure" and make it possible. Hmmm, the hackathon is coming up in a couple weeks. I'll take a loo

Re: [pfSense Support] Problem with Syncing 2 nodes in 1.2-RC2

2007-11-06 Thread Paul M
Jarkka Kivikanta wrote: > Fail-over of the virtual ip's work correctly if I create the rules manually. > > The following error can be found in the MASTER's system log: > Nov 6 11:20:32 php: : New alert found: An error code was received > while attempting XMLRPC sync with username admin > http://1

Re: [pfSense Support] Default number of states

2007-11-06 Thread Paul M
Bill Marquette wrote: > JA: Taking into account the limitations imposed by hardware, what is > the maximum packet rate pf can be expected to handle? > > Daniel Hartmeier: The smallest legal ethernet frame is 84 bytes, which ... > not fast enough. But real traffic consists of larger packets on > av

Re: [pfSense Support] NAT'ing on an openVPN interface

2007-10-29 Thread Paul M
Graham Beneke wrote: > Hi > > I have an openVPN connection to a VPN server and i have a single IP from > the server. I need to NAT my local subnet before putting the traffic > over the VPN. > > I'm not so clued up on custom config files but it looks like I can do > everything that I need to in th

Re: [pfSense Support] DNS Issues with 1.2 RC2

2007-10-26 Thread Paul M
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > I personally use OpenDNS for everything since theyre outside of what the > ISP handles. surely it's easier to simply run your own caching resolvers? that way you can force a cache flush if you're changing your own DNS. the only time either your or my strategy fails is when

Re: [pfSense Support] DNS Issues with 1.2 RC2

2007-10-26 Thread Paul M
Robert Goley wrote: > based routing. DNS refuses to work. This is because the pfsense machine can I have no answer for you, but an idea to try. run "tcpdump -l -n -i xxx udp and port 53" on the firewall for each interface xxx in turn whilst trying to resolve and see if any packets are seen.

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