[pfSense-discussion] wiki signups

2007-07-26 Thread Paul M
is there any chance of the wiki allowing signups again, or having a login created for me (mailme offlist pls) whilst the documentation on pfsense is quite good there's some useful notes on it in the wiki which could do with some small updates BTW, I am a newcomer to pfsense, tried the 1.2 first

Re: [pfSense-discussion] acx100 and 1.2 beta

2007-08-07 Thread Paul M
Marius Schrecker wrote: Hi, I'm currently running 1.0.1 (developer) with the acx100 native driver from kewl.org which I compiled using the recommended patch. Works okay, but I remember it being quite a bit of work. What's the status on this driver in 1.2? Will it be built-in, or easier

Re: [pfSense-discussion] full instalation on 4 GB SSD

2007-08-29 Thread Paul M
Eugen Leitl wrote: I was thinking a real 2.5 SSD would have a MTBF comparable to a real hard drive (SanDisk claims 2 Mh MTBF, can't find any such for Hama SSD, which is a bargain at about 100 EUR for 4 GByte, which probably already answers my question). I think that proper ssd units designed

Re: [pfSense-discussion] transient network drops

2007-08-29 Thread Paul M
Eugen Leitl wrote: wan-pfsense-lan | switch1--diverse hosts what's interesting is that I have transient outages to *some* IPs (it could be just one IP, actually). I can still ping that IP locally is your switch manageable? can

Re: [pfSense-discussion] transient network drops

2007-08-29 Thread Paul M
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:33:45PM +0100, Paul M wrote: Eugen Leitl wrote: wan-pfsense-lan | switch1--diverse hosts what's interesting is that I have transient outages to *some* IPs (it could be just one IP

Re: [pfSense-discussion] noob question

2007-09-19 Thread Paul M
Zied Fakhfakh wrote: Hello everybody, I'm just starting with pfSense, nd I have a couple of questions - is there any logout button from the web interface ? it uses basic authentication, so you have to close browser (FYI, it's a long running bug/issue with firefox/mozilla to be able to

Re: [pfSense-discussion] any plans to implement smtp spam filter/ clam av?

2007-09-19 Thread Paul M
ryn jackson wrote: just wanted to know if there were any plans to implement an smtp proxy package that could do spam filtering and email greylisting/blacklisting. act as a tarpit etc. also possibly clamav as well? could you not install these from freebsd ports?

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Cacti Template

2007-10-25 Thread Paul M
Ronald L. Rosson Jr. wrote: Has anyone come across or developed a template for pfsense firewalls to be polled by a Cacti server. Any information is helpful. dunno about cacti, but I got munin (node) to work quite happily using freebsd ports, so if there's a cacti in the freebsd port, you might

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Via LAN drivers

2007-10-29 Thread Paul M
sai wrote: Realtek and Via ethernet interfaces are supported and are used by many on this list, but the hadware and the drivers are not as good as the Intel ethernet. especially realtek's! We have a machine or two with realtek giga, and they simply cannot achieve anything like theoretical

Re: [pfSense-discussion] 1.2-RC3 released!

2007-11-08 Thread Paul M
David Bottrill wrote: Paul M wrote: p.s .any chance of an upgrade image for those of us who installed it on a regular x86 server? Go to the downloads page an click on updates you need: d'oh, I was looking in the main download area. thanks. meanwhile, I noticed many of the mirrors

Re: [pfSense-discussion] Beginner's Tutorial

2007-12-17 Thread Paul M
jason whitt wrote: download iso burn to cd install set interfaces go to lan ip address login with default login admin/pfsense go from there. I'd add, if you've got an existing network with its own DHCP server, don't plug in the LAN port until you've fully installed pfsense and disabled its DHCP

Re: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ?

2007-12-20 Thread Paul M
Paolo Gentili wrote: your thoughts or experiences about how much trust can i have on pfsense we've got seven boxes doing pfsense - three pairs of 1U servers as firewall clusters protecting public facing web services, and one acting as a VPN concentrator for road warriors. we rely on carp and

Re: [pfSense-discussion] HOW MUCH TRUST ON PFSENSE ?

2007-12-24 Thread Paul M
Bill Marquette wrote: or others that could make use of mechanisms like dynamic allocation of port. That could cause you problems potentially. But would be no different in any other firewall that didn't already understand your protocol. I regularly force vendors to redesign their applications

Re: [pfSense-discussion] which VPN client?

2008-01-16 Thread Paul M
Curtis LaMasters wrote: Paul, Sorry to keep nagging on this one, but, are you using the OpenVPN gui or no, I'm very glad to have your help. the normal version? And what version of the software are you using? my colleague is using the openvpngui as downloaded from http://openvpn.se/ which

Re: [pfSense-discussion] which VPN client?

2008-01-17 Thread Paul M
Curtis LaMasters wrote: Paul, I am using the OpenVPN GUI v1.0.3 from the link below and I have also included a copy of my client side configuration file on the Vista laptop. OK, well, I (reluctantly) booted up vista on my computer which didn't have OV installed so that I could do it from

Re: [pfSense-discussion] which VPN client?

2008-01-17 Thread Paul M
Paul M wrote: I am using the OpenVPN GUI v1.0.3 from the link below and I have also I checked my colleague's version and he was running the older stable release, got him to upgrade and also got openvpn to delete and re-add the tunnel interface, and it now works (not sure which action solved

Re: [pfSense-discussion] which VPN client?

2008-01-18 Thread Paul M
one last thing, has anyone made the openvpn client automatically fix the DNS resolver settings on the client? I can't get this to work :-( so people working from home have to know IP addresses On my linux box, I can set my resolv.conf to the office's resolver (we have internal DNS which points

Re: [pfSense-discussion] which VPN client?

2008-01-24 Thread Paul M
Ronald L. Rosson Jr. wrote: On my linux box, I can set my resolv.conf to the office's resolver (we have internal DNS which points everything to rfc1918 addresses) and it all works just fine! On OSX boxes, I can change resolv.conf but it doesn't seem to take effect :-( I have found this

Re: [pfSense-discussion] bogons update issue

2008-02-04 Thread Paul M
Jan Hoevers wrote: I'm running the embedded version of pfSense on a Soekris 4801. 1. The script starts with sleeping a random interval. This caused it to abort with a 'od: command not found' message. Apparently the od command is missing on the embedded platform, and I worked around this by

[pfSense-discussion] prioritising ACKs

2008-02-05 Thread Paul M
I came across this, an interesting idea for improving throughput, works on openBSD, wondering if it can be done on pfsense/freebsd? http://www.benzedrine.cx/ackpri.html thanks

[pfSense-discussion] internal load balancer doesn't return traffic to originator

2008-02-11 Thread Paul M
scenario: two machines, on (A) 10.x.x.11 and (B) 10.x.x.12 run web servers on port 1024 which are made available to the world via public IP on port 80 by a pfsense firewall (F) (1.2RC4) running a load balancer. the internal IP of the firewall is 10.x.x.254. an application which runs on the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] suggestions for a decent hardware

2008-03-04 Thread Paul M
has anyone tried installing freebsd/pfSense on an AppleTV? you'd need a vlan-aware switch to expand the number of network ports, but it's compact, low power, commodity hardware... in the meanwhile I've asked http://www.appletvhacks.net/

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense / Time Service

2008-03-06 Thread Paul M
RB wrote: No, really - I asked you once in private, now I ask you again in I too have asked him privately. I suspect he's using Lotus Notes or something equally horrible which cannot be configured sanely! Can the list admin get the mail system changed to strip the recipient request headers out?

Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense / Time Service

2008-03-06 Thread Paul M
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:53:19PM +, Paul M wrote: RB wrote: Bwa ha ha! Delicious, delicious irony! I knew it was inevitable since Ryan had to read the thread at least once more before fixing things, but it was worth it to see this one come in. has he fixed things

[pfSense-discussion] freebsd 6.2 ports archive

2008-03-13 Thread Paul M
Hi, I was looking for the syslog-ng package to install on my pfsense boxes, and discovered that the main freebsd site no longer has the ports for that release - only 6.3. I found the ftp.de.freebsd.org site still had it, so I did an evil hack to the hosts file thus: 213.83.42.56

Re: [pfSense-discussion] freebsd 6.2 ports archive

2008-03-13 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: or, perhaps, should pfsense.org website keep a mirror for this purpose? We are working on it: http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=179 freebsd is nice in that the paths to the files are the same on each mirror, so hacking the hosts file made it work with no changes; the

Re: [pfSense-discussion] ARP traffic causing routers to hang - ingle ARP cache with both LAN and WAN ARP entries?

2008-04-03 Thread Paul M
Tortise wrote: kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x) kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0xdd1f) kernel: arp: 192.168.0.7 is on em1 but got reply from 00:00:cd:1c:14:1a on em0 kernel: arp: 192.168.0.7 is on em1 but got reply from 00:09:bf:55:71:b0 on em0 could it be

Re: [pfSense-discussion] clog size

2008-04-14 Thread Paul M
RB wrote: I've had a request to increase logging duration on systems that have no access to an external syslog server, so am making the necessary changes to maintain much larger ring-log files. Incredibly larger - what we've done is to make a few tweaks and install syslog-ng 1/ change

Re: [pfSense-discussion] clog size

2008-04-14 Thread Paul M
Scott Ullrich wrote: On 4/14/08, Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have commited some code to help with this: http://cvs.pfsense.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/pfSense/usr/local/www/guiconfig.inc?rev=1.90.2.50;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup Woops, wrong URL:

RE: [pfSense-discussion] Re: Newbie Q: security of php on perimeter firewall

2005-11-28 Thread Paul M. Impellizzeri
Title: Re: [pfSense-discussion] Re: Newbie Q: security of php on perimeter firewall Is there any way we can reboot the mail server now? It is running at 100% cpu but they are services that should normally be runningI think we need to shake it out. Paul From: Scott Ullrich