Re: [pfSense Support] Memory Detection Problem in 1.2.1-RC2?

2008-12-05 Thread Paul Mansfield
Tim Nelson wrote: 320MB RAM (2x 128 + 1x 64). The BIOS displays the proper amount of RAM it's probably not truly contiguous memory due to the different sizes. if you were desperate you could remove the 64M or swap the simms around, and hope that the memory map gets fixed, but easier to simply

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

2008-12-05 Thread Tim Korves
Hi all, we're searching for a reliable hardware basis to use as a pfSense firewall with a maximum concurrent throughput of 6 Gigabits / second. We were thinking of something like this hardware configuration: - 2x Intel Xeon QuadCore Processors - 4 or 8 GB of RAM - QuadPort Intel Pro 1000

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

2008-12-05 Thread Rainer Duffner
Tim Korves schrieb: Hi all, we're searching for a reliable hardware basis to use as a pfSense firewall with a maximum concurrent throughput of 6 Gigabits / second. We were thinking of something like this hardware configuration: - 2x Intel Xeon QuadCore Processors - 4 or 8 GB of RAM -

Re: [pfSense Support] import DHCP static IP mappings

2008-12-05 Thread Vick Khera
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Kirk Wight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there any way to import or drop in an existing dhcpd.conf to pfSense, to avoid having to enter dozens of static IP mappings in the GUI? I've tried simply adding my existing mappings to the pfSense

Re: [pfSense Support] Memory Detection Problem in 1.2.1-RC2?

2008-12-05 Thread Tim Nelson
I put in 3x 128MB DIMMS, all non ECC and things are working properly now. I've never seen that problem previously though... Odd. Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 - Paul Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Nelson wrote: 320MB RAM (2x 128 + 1x 64).

Re: [pfSense Support] import DHCP static IP mappings

2008-12-05 Thread Gary Buckmaster
Kirk Wight wrote: Hello, Is there any way to import or drop in an existing dhcpd.conf to pfSense, to avoid having to enter dozens of static IP mappings in the GUI? I've tried simply adding my existing mappings to the pfSense /var/dhcpd/etc/dhcpd.conf, but they don't show up in the GUI... does

[pfSense Support] Load-balancing internal net

2008-12-05 Thread rgreiner
Hi, could somebody point me to a document on how I could deploy pfSense with a load balance/failover config, considering 2 pfsense boxes? I'm not interested in a dual WAN config, because our backbone already handles that tranparently (OSPF/BGP). What I would like to have is 2 pfSense boxes

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

2008-12-05 Thread RB
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 06:52, Tim Korves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we're searching for a reliable hardware basis to use as a pfSense firewall with a maximum concurrent throughput of 6 Gigabits / second. Four questions to start: - If 6Gbps is the peak, what do you expect the sustained throughput

Re: [pfSense Support] import DHCP static IP mappings

2008-12-05 Thread Kirk Wight
Ah, perfect, thank you - hadn't investigated Backup/Restore yet. Thanks again. On Dec 5, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Vick Khera wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Kirk Wight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there any way to import or drop in an existing dhcpd.conf to pfSense, to avoid

Re: [pfSense Support] Load-balancing internal net

2008-12-05 Thread RB
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 08:31, rgreiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could somebody point me to a document on how I could deploy pfSense with a load balance/failover config, considering 2 pfsense boxes? I'm not interested in a dual WAN config, because our backbone already handles that tranparently

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

2008-12-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 08:46:54AM -0700, RB wrote: - 2x Intel Xeon QuadCore Processors Probably overkill if you aren't proxying, using the portal, or doing lots of load-balancing/multiwan. I wonder whether my current SunFire X2100 M2 dual-core 1.8 GHz Opteron could fill all its onboard NICs

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

2008-12-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Tim Korves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, we're searching for a reliable hardware basis to use as a pfSense firewall with a maximum concurrent throughput of 6 Gigabits / second. We were thinking of something like this hardware configuration: - 2x Intel Xeon

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

2008-12-05 Thread Bill Marquette
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Commodity PC hardware of any type may not be able to push that. It's not about Gbps, it's about pps and the kind of traffic you're pushing. You're going to max out at probably 1 Mpps (million packets per second). 1 Mpps

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

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

2008-12-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Curtis Maurand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. And you aren't going to see a PIX pushing remotely close to 1Mpps.

Re: [pfSense Support] Load-balancing internal net

2008-12-05 Thread rgreiner
RB wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 08:31, rgreiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could somebody point me to a document on how I could deploy pfSense with a load balance/failover config, considering 2 pfsense boxes? I'm not interested in a dual WAN config, because our backbone already handles

Re: [pfSense Support] regulary checks of config.xml through md5

2008-12-05 Thread Scott Ullrich
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, as i am investigating monitoring solutions at the moment i came up with an idea, somebody has already implemented: what about regulary getting the config.xml (not bad as backup as well) and checking it against a former - good

Re: [pfSense Support] regulary checks of config.xml through md5

2008-12-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, as i am investigating monitoring solutions at the moment i came up with an idea, somebody has already implemented: what about regulary getting the config.xml

Re: [pfSense Support] regulary checks of config.xml through md5

2008-12-05 Thread Bill Marquette
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Along those lines - one of the in the future items on the list for the autoconfigbackup is an option to email when the configuration changes. For some environments that would be nothing more than an annoyance, but could be

Re: [pfSense Support] regulary checks of config.xml through md5

2008-12-05 Thread Chris Buechler
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm guessing it wouldn't take much to have write_config() dump a message to our standard event logger, which I believe makes use of syslog. I might poke at that in the next few days now that I think of it (2.0 only