Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense using 4 nics?

2006-10-24 Thread Randy B
I've run with as many as 7 interfaces - one SIS, one dual fxp, and one quad fxp; no issues there. However, I've not done that on 1.0 On 10/24/06, Rudi Potgieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Does pfsense have a problem using 4 nics? Whenever I install a fourth in the machine, one of the

Re: [pfSense Support] SSH direct shell access

2006-07-18 Thread Randy B
Coming from having participated in design authoring automated systems that telnet/ssh to tens of thousands of devices and manage them automatically, any such script worth it's salt is going to use Expect and be able to handle multiple levels of indirection before a shell prompt. Contact me

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: [m0n0wall] Re: per-interface rulebases: why?

2006-06-02 Thread Randy B
No. I think you are thinking in the wrong direction if you want rules from one rulebase to magically expand into four rulebases. That's not something I've ever wanted, I'm unsure how you ended down that train of thought. I think I started that [explicit] train of thought, simply because no

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: [m0n0wall] Re: per-interface rulebases: why?

2006-06-02 Thread Randy B
You provide no concrete reasoning for your speculations, and I think that you're wrong. What speculation? That the basis of networking is how specific machines' interfaces are linked, be it at layer 2 or layer 7? This kind of hand-waving really makes me itch for ad-hominem attacks, but I'm

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: [m0n0wall] Re: per-interface rulebases: why?

2006-06-02 Thread Randy B
Eric better covers things below than what I had written. What are those edge cases, exactly? To enumerate all edges I have ever discovered would be more taxing than my time allows. To name a few: repeated subnets, interface balancing, source-based routing, traffic mirroring, TTL mangling,

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: per-interface rulebases: why?

2006-06-02 Thread Randy B
Any kernel experts out there? Whoa, waitaminit - you're telling us you expect this to be implemented at the kernel level? As in trying to change the way the most trusted, respected, and audited group of networking-centric OSes views and handles networks? The same OS family that's regarded as

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: [m0n0wall] Re: per-interface rulebases: why?

2006-06-01 Thread Randy B
I find it irrelevant to the discussion what others are doing, though :-). Simply that this concept is alien to me, and I'm trying to grasp context - the more outside examples the better. It seems that what you're looking for is somewhat similar to some of the higher-level shiny bits on Cisco's

Re: [pfSense Support] openssh vpn support

2006-05-29 Thread Randy B
I've done this myself (full tun/tap setup), replete with DHCP - I just port-forwarded it through pfSense to an internal host. It's pretty neat, but lacks repeatability; I had to script some sudo commands both server and client-side to set up the interfaces routing. RB On 5/29/06, Scott

Re: [pfSense Support] We need some testing help if you are reading this on Sunday!

2006-04-16 Thread Randy B
Picky bit (a bit late, and package-related). SpamD hides the Outlook tab when the SpamD Database tab is clicked. I've run through most of the UI on my [not fresh install] system, and not found any problems so far other than that. RB On 4/16/06, Scott Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please

Re: [pfSense Support] Raid disks

2006-04-13 Thread Randy B
Day late, dollar short, and only an opinion:I'll spare you the boring details, but I know understand enterprise redundancy. Software RAID has it's place, but at the enterprise level it's ridiculous to waste valuable CPU cycles on something a $300 add-on card can do much more efficiently and with

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: ntp startup question

2006-04-11 Thread Randy B
On 4/5/06, Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ISC's ntp is well known and understood and considered very accurate. I see no other choice. After Running OpenNTP for a while now, I feel less uncomfortable with it - after the first 12 hours or so, the clock swings (+/-12ms) evened out, and it's

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: ntp startup question

2006-04-05 Thread Randy B
Joshua, privately I've had interest on this from one other person, hopefully they'll contact you to coordinate efforts That would be me - I'm no BSD developer, but am certainly willing to muck about with setting up configs for it and such. OpenNTP's only redeeming factors ATM seem to be it's

Re: [pfSense Support] ntp startup question

2006-04-04 Thread Randy B
And yes, we are open to replacing it with something else if someone wants to do the plubming. If given the choice between ntp.org (http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Main/NTPcopyrightStatement) and OpenNTP (OpenBSD), which would you prefer?

Re: [pfSense Support] seperation of network

2006-03-13 Thread Randy B
That's the way I do it - IIRC, you may have to set up the 'allow' for that subnet to go out, but you will definitely need to set one up to deny from them to LAN (or some subset thereof). The nice thing is that I have my own ISC DHCP/BIND setup on my LAN, but I can just let pfSense take care of

Re: [pfSense Support] Bitten by the cleanup bug...

2006-02-03 Thread Randy B
it finish itself off before I started recovering, since there really was no telling how far the deletion had already gotten. Scott Ullrich wrote: Great, what version where you running? On 2/2/06, Randy B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a submitted bug, but just wanted to let you guys know

Re: [pfSense Support] Bitten by the cleanup bug...

2006-02-03 Thread Randy B
Scott Ullrich wrote: On 2/3/06, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, don't do this! I always use /mnt... Yes, use /mnt instead of /tmp/ so that you do not whipe you're data. Scott Indeed; I always use /mnt as well, but it was readonly (0555), and I didn't even think to chmod

[pfSense Support] Bitten by the cleanup bug...

2006-02-02 Thread Randy B
Not a submitted bug, but just wanted to let you guys know (for historical purposes): If you boot your system to the pfSense LiveCD to fsck disks or the like, _DO NOT_ assume that mounted partitions will be automagically and safely unmounted upon reboot - especially if they're mounted

Re: [pfSense Support] IPSec enhancements ??s

2006-01-26 Thread Randy B
Long time listener, first time caller. Bearded, black-wearing, anti-social, White Zombie Otep-listening security professional. I'm not going to quote the precise statement because it's not worth repeating, but it's rather obvious that you're not making much headway with your suggestion

Re: AW: [pfSense Support] beeps gone?

2006-01-04 Thread Randy B
I've loosed a monster... ;-) FWIW, I think there's a wrong note in the version I sent out to the list. Jonathan Woodard wrote: Thanks for fixing this from me as well, I enjoy the beeps as well. On a side note, I would again like to throw my vote for Star Wars Imperial March. :-) Holger

Re: [pfSense Support] Does anybody have more than 2GB RAM?

2005-11-09 Thread Randy B
Rainer Duffner wrote: Hi, I tried installing the 0.90 that was on the mirrors this morning on a Dual 1.2 GHz Tualation (a Supermicro P3TDE6) with 4 GB RAM. Both FreeBSD6 and that 0.90 snapshot paniced relatively early in the boot-sequence. I've run 0.7x-series pfSense successfully on a Dell

Re: [pfSense Support] Dump states featue

2005-10-31 Thread Randy B
I got to this point just running about 500 requests/sec in apache benchmark. No keepalive. Strike me as inexperienced here, but wouldn't you want to tweak PF a bit for your environment? Did you try the Firewall Optimization Options and set it to aggressive? Methinks one would have a

Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense 0.88

2005-10-22 Thread Randy B
Hm. Strange. As I understand DHCP relay should be run in addition to Pass-through mode if DHCP is used. But I'm not sure how to set one up. 1:1 NAT is an option but I'd like to keep private IPs internally. I of course could set pfsense to router mode but I guess kind of bridging is what I'd

Re: [pfSense Support] pfsense on mac mini?

2005-09-10 Thread Randy B
Kinda OT, but good info for someone possibly :) Well, since we're sharing hardware platforms, here are two of my favorites: http://www.advantech.com/products/Model_Detail.asp?model_id=1-U89QYBU=NCGPD= http://www.mbx.com/oem/reference_platforms/RP-1013.cfm Both have space for a Soekris 1411

Re: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-20 Thread Randy B
Fleming, John (ZeroChaos) wrote: I'd also like to know which rl cards these are. Can you send the output of pciconf -lv? Glad to oblige [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9:0: class=0x02 card=0x13011186 chip=0x13001186 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'D-Link System Inc' device = 'DL 10038C or

Re: [pfSense Support] iperf question

2005-08-20 Thread Randy B
Chris Buechler wrote: hah Well...that's probably the best you can get on that. :) With rl NIC's at least, since they're interrupt happy. Wow. That was certainly it. Ran top and showed 0% idle CPU with over 70% interrupt dedicated to interrupts and ~25% system. I knew the RL NICs were

Re: [pfSense Support] Alert about pf rules syntax errors... again...

2005-08-16 Thread Randy B
Scott Ullrich wrote: I just tested the latest vpn.inc with my home firewall that has 4+ ipsec links and it works fine.I'll be releasing a new version soon. Please be on the lookout for it and give it a try. Scott I'm still showing this issue in 0.77. My last fix was to comment out a