[pfSense Support] Beta 3 Compact Flash CF Boot Failures

2006-05-05 Thread Tortise
Hi I have tried booting from a 256M MUSE CF card in a Addonics CF / IDE converter in several PC's, booting won't complete. Using the standard file it always stalls at: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf / I have also tried installing using:

[pfSense Support] Minimium Hardware 96 MRAM?

2006-11-04 Thread Tortise
Hi I note the min RAM is said to be 128M I've been running pfSense on a Pentium 133 with 96M of RAM for many months, including with one VPN interface. The CPU runs at about 10-25% and the Memory about 50%. This may be of interest! Kind regardsDavid Hingston Chequers SoftwareNew

[pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure

2006-11-07 Thread Tortise
Hi I am trying to run pfSense from a CF card, have written images to various cards. Monowall boots fine and runs from 16M CF card so it would seem the IDE CF reader is ok. This is on a Pentium 166 system. With pfSense, trying a number of different CF cards 128M and 256M: The BTX loader

Re: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure

2006-11-07 Thread Tortise
The embedded images have output at com1. There won't be video output once it started. This is due to some embedded devices only having serial console and no video. Access your machine at com1, 9600baud using a terminalprogram. Holger From: Tortise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 APPARENT boot failure - RESOLVED - SUGGESTIONS

2006-11-09 Thread Tortise
- From: Tortise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:19 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] CF 1.0.1 boot failure Perhaps I have a null modem connection problem as 5 beeps are eventually heard, suggesting it may be running up properly

[pfSense Support] Dial Up Failover

2007-03-09 Thread Tortise
Would that mean one could configure dialup failover? If so that would be really cool. Kind regards David - Original Message - From: Luca Lucchesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:08 AM Subject: [pfSense Support] Can't connect to PPTP with

[pfSense Support] Diagnostic ARP Table

2007-04-03 Thread Tortise
Hi I have three statically assigned TiVo's on the pfSense routed LAN with unique ARP's soft defined on the Linux OS they run. The ARP entries appear intermittently in the pfSense Diagnostics ARP table, typically one is shown and the other generally are not, although occassionally 2 may be

Re: [pfSense Support] Diagnostic ARP Table

2007-04-04 Thread Tortise
] Diagnostic ARP Table Tortise wrote: Hi I have three statically assigned TiVo's on the pfSense routed LAN with unique ARP's soft defined on the Linux OS they run. The ARP entries appear intermittently in the pfSense Diagnostics ARP table, typically one is shown and the other generally

Re: [pfSense Support] Diagnostic ARP Table

2007-04-11 Thread Tortise
Chris Wow, that all?! Thank you. David - Original Message - From: Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 2:26 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Diagnostic ARP Table Tortise wrote: Thanks Chris You are of course correct, pinging

[pfSense Support] LAN / WAN disconnections - Motorola Surfboard SB5101 Cable Modem?

2007-05-16 Thread Tortise
Hi I am finding one of my pfsense boxes is losing its internal connection between the LAN and WAN. Happens maybe once a week or longer... The WAN seems to be OK, as I recall I can ping the Internet still and ping / access the Motorola config page at 192.168.100.1 There are no error messages

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN disconnections - Motorola Surfboard SB5101 Cable Modem?

2007-05-16 Thread Tortise
Hi Bill for me rl1 = WAN and Direct connected only to the Cable modem i.e. no switch sharing. rl2 = LAN and connected to LAN switches. Can I presume that means you have checked and confirmed there are no similar messages in your System Logs? David - Original Message - From: Bill

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN disconnections - Motorola Surfboard SB5101 Cable Modem?

2007-05-17 Thread Tortise
. Kind regards David - Original Message - From: Rajkumar S [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN disconnections - Motorola Surfboard SB5101 Cable Modem? On 5/17/07, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rl1 = WAN

Re: [pfSense Support] FIXED? LAN / WAN disconnections - Motorola Surfboard SB5101 Cable Modem?

2007-05-21 Thread Tortise
Dear List I may have fixed this. I replaced the pfSense NIC which was in hindsight intermittently faulty, that finally failed completely. It has been stable since, with no logged messages other than the standard dnsmasq[489]: reading /var/dhcpd/var/db/dhcpd.leases Clearly more time is

[pfSense Support] pfSense Hanging...

2007-06-03 Thread Tortise
Hi I am finding pfSense hangs in the sense that the connection between WAN and LAN just vanishes and can only be fixed by rebooting. I suspected hardware, replaced a NIC and thought this was the problem, however the problems persisted. I changed the PC and NIC's completely, to a Pentium 500

Re: [pfSense Support] pfSense Hanging...

2007-06-03 Thread Tortise
: Monday, June 04, 2007 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] pfSense Hanging... State table filling? Try increasing it in System-Advanced. --Bill On 6/3/07, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am finding pfSense hangs in the sense that the connection between WAN and LAN just vanishes and can

Re: [pfSense Support] pfSense Hanging...

2007-06-03 Thread Tortise
... On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:27 +1200, Tortise wrote: Thanks Bill Gosh, thats got to presumably use more than the default of 10,000! Currently there are 116 there. Easier than you might think. If you have a worm infected laptop plugged into your network only periodically it can cause state table

Re: [pfSense Support] pfSense Hanging...

2007-06-04 Thread Tortise
: Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] pfSense Hanging... Thanks Chris The answers to your questions are: Strictly it is not a hang as the system does not freeze, it largely functions normally, just loses Internet

Re: [pfSense Support] pfSense Hanging...

2007-06-04 Thread Tortise
Thank you indeed Chris I understand the modem is largely bridging, as I think you are suggesting, given the Internet IP address appears on the pfSense WAN NIC. This is the sort of approach I was looking for. Given my ISP is declared on my email address here I won't comment about New Zealand

[pfSense Support] Reduce WAN NIC to 10Mbps?

2007-06-14 Thread Tortise
Hi My ISP researching a problem with packet loss advises me to: Set your firewall for 10mbps full-duplex, auto negotiation off, and then run your tests again. This is presumably to match their 10M Wireless Gateway. Can we do this somehow? I am running dc class NIC's. Kind regards David

[pfSense Support] Programming pfSense to Reboot and Dump LAN / WAN traffic

2007-07-19 Thread Tortise
Hi Can someone start me off or point me in the right direction to program: 1) LAN and WAN traffic dumps to a Centos HDD on the LAN, in an attempt to catch the traffic that may be causing pf Sense to intermittently hang and require rebooting. 2) Somehow setup a cron job to ping the ISP every

Re: [pfSense Support] Programming pfSense to Reboot and Dump LAN / WAN traffic

2007-07-20 Thread Tortise
Thank you Vivek connect both systems to a hub and run tcpdump on the other machine logging all traffic some place. Yes they are already on a LAN with a switch. I didn't realise TCPDump could be run from another machine other than the one being dumped from. From what you suggest it can.

[pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M RAM

2007-08-16 Thread Tortise
to be unreliable for him. I do not want to, however the current reliability is also unsustainable for me. Is there any way I can assist to fix this problem? Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 10

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-16 Thread Tortise
to be unreliable for him. I do not want to, however the current reliability is also unsustainable for me. Is there any way I can assist to fix this problem? Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-16 Thread Tortise
to, however the current reliability is also unsustainable for me. Is there any way I can assist to fix this problem? Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-17 Thread Tortise
regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Programming pfSense to Reboot and Dump LAN / WAN traffic Thank you Vivek

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-17 Thread Tortise
-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M -Sean - Original Message - From: Tortise To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 4:07 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M Hi

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-17 Thread Tortise
Cavanaugh To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:07 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M -Sean - Original Message - From: Tortise To: support

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-21 Thread Tortise
To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:07 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M -Sean - Original Message - From: Tortise To: support

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-22 Thread Tortise
@pfsense.com Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M On Aug 21, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Tortise wrote: I am running wireshark - however the connection has yet to misbehave whilst

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-23 Thread Tortise
the plot. Why would rebooting pfsense fix that? Perhaps cause the modem to re-negotiate its connection? Cause the ISP end to wake up? Why would rebooting the modem on its own not fix it? Does this help at all? Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Tortise

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-08-27 Thread Tortise
continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M On Aug 23, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Tortise wrote: Why would rebooting pfsense fix that? Perhaps cause the modem to re-negotiate its connection? Cause the ISP end to wake up? what if you just force pfsense to bring down and back up

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M RAM

2007-08-29 Thread Tortise
Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M RAM Tortise wrote: Buy hardware that's not faulty. pfsense is *way* more robust than what it seems to be for you. what network interfaces do you have? if other than broadcom or Intel, switch to Intel. In frustration I have purchased 2 new Intel Pro/1000GT NIC's

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M RAM

2007-08-29 Thread Tortise
Dear List Until we find a permanent solution it seems I may be able to do a temporary fix. Firstly I note that during a download I can run ifconfig em0 down; ifconfig em0 up without apparently interrupting the download! This fixes the problem - until it occurs again. Looking around (using

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M RAM

2007-08-31 Thread Tortise
I think we may have got this fixed, (all be it as a Kludge?) Essentially the fix is to ping the static IP's first hop, if this is down then flick the WAN NIC state down and up, this restores the lost connection where the motorola 5101 has stopped sending packets (presumably for some

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M RAM

2007-09-01 Thread Tortise
I was not surprised that the Motorola 5100 cable modem on the Telstraclear Network in New Zealand also lost connectivity within the first 24 hours of operation. For pfSense the 5100 seems no more compatible than the 5101. Given there seem to be no reports of people having problems on other

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M RAM

2007-09-02 Thread Tortise
Thanks Bill They are static IP's, so I assume (you may know better?) DHCP lease times are (or should be?) irrelevant. Not sure if this what you mean but this might answer? $ ls /var/db/ entropy ipsecpinghosts pingmsstatus pingstatus pkg rrd Kind regards David Hingston - Original

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M RAM

2007-09-03 Thread Tortise
, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bill They are static IP's, so I assume (you may know better?) DHCP lease times are (or should be?) irrelevant. Not sure if this what you mean but this might answer? No worries, if it's static assigned and not a dhcp static

[pfSense Support] Saving Cron Tab /etc/crontab onto CF cards to maintain changes following rebooting

2007-10-03 Thread Tortise
Hi I have found that rebooting seems to restore the crontab file back to the default value. How can we commit changes of /etc/crontab to CF? Kind regards David Hingston

Re: [pfSense Support] Loosing connectivity

2007-10-03 Thread Tortise
Interesting Marco Look into the thread I started [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M RAM Let us know if that solves it. BTW what is your ADSL modem model and brand, for the record? Kind regards David Hingston - Original

Re: [pfSense Support] Loosing connectivity

2007-10-03 Thread Tortise
Sorry, you did state the modem! Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Marco Bianchi To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 7:42 AM Subject: [pfSense Support] Loosing connectivity Hi, I've just installed pfSense 1.02RC2 to run the

Re: [pfSense Support] Saving Cron Tab /etc/crontab onto CF cards to maintain changes following rebooting

2007-10-03 Thread Tortise
] Saving Cron Tab /etc/crontab onto CF cards to maintain changes following rebooting Tortise wrote: Hi I have found that rebooting seems to restore the crontab file back to the default value. How can we commit changes of /etc/crontab to CF? Put the entries into config.xml

Re: [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2007-10-05 Thread Tortise
Volker re Who else would find a cron script useful which checks the connection regularly and takes remedial action (e.g. ifconfig down/up) when necessary? See my earlier post where I have detailed one and Chris has pointed out to preserve the cron settings in the xml. Perhaps you can suggest

Re: [pfSense Support] Asterisk and PfSense

2007-10-10 Thread Tortise
Ugo Which ports are you NATting? Which ports are setup for RTP in asterisk? Kind regards David - Original Message - From: Ugo Bellavance [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 6:28 PM Subject: [pfSense Support] Asterisk and PfSense Hi, I have an

Re: [pfSense Support] hotplug event on LAN triggers problem on PPTP WAN

2007-10-12 Thread Tortise
Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 2:10 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] hotplug event on LAN triggers problem on PPTP WAN On 10/12/07, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sorry for the usual question, where does one get 1.2RC-3 please?! Kind

Re: [pfSense Support] Custom startup scripts

2007-10-26 Thread Tortise
Can this be done via the xml to be truly portable? Kind regards David - Original Message - From: Joe Laffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:35 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Custom startup scripts On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Scott Ullrich

[pfSense Support] Cable with Load Balancing Failover to ADSL

2007-11-12 Thread Tortise
Hi I am looking at implementing the subject. As some list members may know I have to ping the ISP to catch occasional loss of connectivity between the NIC and the Modem, and issue successive ifconfig down; ifconfig up commands. This is working well, however the cable connection also goes

Re: [pfSense Support] System Time

2008-04-10 Thread Tortise
Hey I know the answer to this one! Go to Command menu under Diagnostics and type date, bingo! http://[pfsenseIP]/status.php also gives it! Kewl eh! Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Paul M [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008

[pfSense Support] kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0000)

2008-04-12 Thread Tortise
Hi I am trying to track down the source of these relatively frequently logged events. I also note other formats: (0x4500) (0x6fe7) and (0xdd1f) Can I syslog the packets from pfSense, it seems I can only syslog logged messages? Is there a better way to proceed than bulk tcpdumping the

Re: [pfSense Support] PPPoE gets disconnected on WAN port

2008-04-16 Thread Tortise
Olivier Have you tried successively issuing the commands ifconfig em0 down ifconfig em0 up from http://[LANIP]/exec.php where em0 is your WAN interface Give that a try and see what happens and do let us know please. Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Olivier

Re: [pfSense Support] PPPoE gets disconnected on WAN port

2008-04-16 Thread Tortise
Also what are you guys respective NIC's brand, model and chip? Kind regards David Hingston - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [pfSense Support] check_reload_status.log

2008-04-16 Thread Tortise
What is check_reload_status intended to do and achieve? Why does it get triggered? (Frequently as it does in one of my boxes) Kind regards David Hingston Florian, The larger question is why you haven't upgraded to 1.2-RELEASE since its been out for several months now? -Gary @pfsense.com

Re: [pfSense Support] [DEBUG] Lock recursion detected

2008-04-23 Thread Tortise
: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] [DEBUG] Lock recursion detected On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have been testing NAT with UDP and a port range of 10001 - 16383. This is on 1.2 final, embedded on i386. You might

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Tortise
Re: If BIOS does not support booting from USB then no operating system can help because the BIOS is the first intelligence to the processor which directs the computer to devices. A Compact flash with IDE interface works very well. It seems to me that a floppy could boot, load a USB driver and

Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support

2008-05-06 Thread Tortise
] boot usb wothout bios support On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that a floppy could boot, load a USB driver and hand over to the USB device on these old machines? Any reason not? (Floppy disk required!) I was thinking of that - I seem to recall

Re: [pfSense Support] setting time

2008-05-10 Thread Tortise
Dean, have you checked the motherboard battery? (I think in theory this should only be relevant on powering off, but I wouldn't be sure in practice) Kind regards David Hingston - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[pfSense Support] Re: SOLVED [pfSense Support] LAN / WAN Disconnections continue in 1.2-RC1, Intel Pro/1000GT NICs with 370M

2008-05-12 Thread Tortise
Dear List and especially pfSense maintainers, Bill, Chris, Scott et al. I upgraded to 1.2 over a month ago. The above issue (and the earlier pfSense hanging...) have not recurred since the upgrade. I was not aware of a particular fix that might have addressed this, however looking around it

Re: [pfSense Support] setting time

2008-05-14 Thread Tortise
Not sure if this is resolved, I was reminded today of the BIOS reports of the system status - especially the voltages, a failing power supply might also cause this problem, check the voltages from the boot BIOS. Do let us know the outcome. Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message

Re: [pfSense Support] PFsense wan hangs up after 10min

2008-05-19 Thread Tortise
Yes, which version are you running? What is the ISP Bridge exactly? Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Arvydas Brazenas To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 7:46 PM Subject: [pfSense Support] PFsense wan hangs up after 10min Hi, ISP

Re: [pfSense Support] PFsense wan hangs up after 10min

2008-05-20 Thread Tortise
When down, what happens if you successively issue following commands from {ipaddress}/exec.php ifconfig em0 down ifconfig em0 up where em0 is your WAN NIC assignment Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Arvydas Brazenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com

[pfSense Support] PPTP User Error 1.2 CF

2008-05-22 Thread Tortise
Hi I got the following when adding a PPTP user: Fatal error: Cannot create references to/from string offsets nor overloaded objects in /etc/inc/xmlparse.inc on line 57 It then reloaded a backup of the XML, and it seems the user was added, yet to be confirmed. Is this any help to know? Kind

Re: [pfSense Support] PPTP User Error 1.2 CF

2008-05-25 Thread Tortise
Mmmm Haven't managed it so far, will keep an eye out for it. Log entries appended, if that is any help? Also is there a minimum no of characters for the password, a 5 digit one was input. Kind regards David Hingston I got the following when adding a PPTP user: Fatal error: Cannot create

Re: [pfSense Support] PPTP User Error 1.2 CF

2008-05-25 Thread Tortise
Maybe spoke too soon, This is also logged following adding and taking away a new PPTP user: May 25 20:23:24 last message repeated 2 times May 25 20:23:39 php: /sajax/index.sajax.php: [DEBUG] Lock recursion detected. Kind regards David Hingston I got the following when adding a PPTP user:

Re: [pfSense Support] How to deal with this?

2008-07-05 Thread Tortise
What cable modems are these? (Brand and model) Why not use static IP's? There is custom code on the list associated with pings failing, giving an opportunity to run some code Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: B. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com

Re: [pfSense Support] alix (any verison) on a CF harddisk - full version ?

2008-07-24 Thread Tortise
re: I know there are a number of end users running full installs on CF and I haven't heard of any of them killing a CF either. Theoretically the card should die in less than a year To me the card is not so likely as to die wholesale as it is to have sectors die here and there. These

[pfSense Support] WinSCP and Port 223 - SFTP

2008-08-02 Thread Tortise
Hi When I run a connection thru pfSense (1.2 CF) almost immediately following successful connection WinSCP loses the connection with an Server unexpectedly closed network connection error message. Happens with client LAN side and WAN side. Logs add little that I can see. Running the

Re: [pfSense Support] WinSCP and Port 223 - SFTP

2008-08-02 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] WinSCP and Port 223 - SFTP On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi When I run a connection thru pfSense (1.2

Re: [pfSense Support] WinSCP and Port 223 - SFTP

2008-08-02 Thread Tortise
Re: Any chance your rule is doing OS detection? Gosh I thought you were joking, however wise to first check the rule, bearing in mind your responses are invariably well founded, sure enough the ability to limit the OS is there(!), however its set to any. The rule is a standard TCP pass Port

Re: [pfSense Support] WinSCP and Port 223 - SFTP

2008-08-02 Thread Tortise
PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: Any chance your rule is doing OS detection? Gosh I thought you were joking, however wise to first check the rule, bearing in mind your responses are invariably well founded, sure enough the ability to limit the OS is there(!), however its set to any

Re: [pfSense Support] WinSCP and Port 223 - SFTP

2008-08-03 Thread Tortise
David - Original Message - From: Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] WinSCP and Port 223 - SFTP On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris I am not sure what you

[pfSense Support] Dell XPS R400 Pentium 400 II and IDE / CF Read error

2009-01-13 Thread Tortise
Hi I was given a couple of the above boxes, the 8G HDD's are noisy yet run pfSense fine. The rest of the boxes are quiet with largish CPU heatsinks instead of typically noisy CPU fans. I was hoping they would become nice quiet boxes running pfSense on IDE / CF drives. I connected up some

Re: [pfSense Support] Possible to boot pfSense with WAN interface down?

2009-01-28 Thread Tortise
Hi Marty There will be a boot file that you can append the ifconfig command to, to take the WAN down on reboot. This file would need to be watched for change if upgrading, for example if using a later CF image. With alternative network dial in access you may be able to trigger pfsense to

[pfSense Support] Minor text change suggestion - OpenNTPD

2009-03-03 Thread Tortise
Hi On the OpenNTPD page I suggest the text be changed from Select the interface the NTP server will listen on. Select the interface(s) the NTP server will listen on. I assume this minor change more accurately describes that pfsense seems to be able to serve NTP on multiple LAN interfaces.

Re: SV: [pfSense Support] sip nat

2009-03-18 Thread Tortise
What is BADASS and what are you saying here? It seems to be mixed messages and not consistent to me. I'd like to understand what it is that you understand please. Kind regards David - Original Message - From: Chris Flugstad To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:43 AM

Re: [pfSense Support] Internet at the lake? Rogers Mobile InternetStick (Rocket) with pfSense?

2009-03-27 Thread Tortise
Check out the Linksys wrt54g3g which I use with a 3G XU870, (cheap 2nd hand) works well for portable Internet connections for a battery of wireless notebooks. It runs from 12V so car battery power is also an option. The code is open source and published by Linksys, whether that makes the

Re: [pfSense Support] Internet at the lake? Rogers MobileInternetStick (Rocket) with pfSense?

2009-03-27 Thread Tortise
Actually the best 3G router option I've found is an Alix 6b2. It has a miniPCI Express slot you can use for the cellular connection (no miniPCI solutions exist AFAIK) / Would the Dell 3G Mini PCI Express modules used in their notebooks work?

[pfSense Support] 440BX Chipset

2009-04-24 Thread Tortise
Is anyone using pfSense on a motherboard with the 440BX chipset? Does your CPU use drop to zero? A bug is suspected with this chipset and FreeBSD. The bug is evident when running /sbin/sysctl -n kern.cp_time successively from the command prompt reports the same non-incrementing numbers.

Re: [pfSense Support] 440BX Chipset

2009-04-24 Thread Tortise
, April 25, 2009 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] 440BX Chipset Tortise wrote: Is anyone using pfSense on a motherboard with the 440BX chipset? Does your CPU use drop to zero? A bug is suspected with this chipset and FreeBSD. The bug is evident when running /sbin/sysctl -n

Re: [pfSense Support] 440BX Chipset

2009-04-26 Thread Tortise
Thanks Pete Maybe its not the chipset that's the problem. Which image are you running? HHD? Embedded? Kind regards David - Original Message - From: Pete Boyd petes-li...@thegoldenear.org To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 6:03 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] 440BX

[pfSense Support] Multiple Filenames for Diskless Boot On LAN

2009-10-26 Thread tortise
Hi Can multiple file names be specified for diskless boot on LAN functionality in pfSense on the same LAN? (e.g. thin clients and fat clients from same or different servers on same LAN)

Re: [pfSense Support] Multiple Filenames for Diskless Boot On LAN

2009-10-27 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Seth Mos seth@xs4all.nl To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Multiple Filenames for Diskless Boot On LAN tort...@paradise.net.nz schreef: Hi Can multiple file names be specified for diskless

[pfSense Support] Wake On LAN

2009-11-30 Thread Tortise
Somehow I cannot get magic packets to awaken any PC on a pfSense LAN. I don't get it. Some motherboard BIOS seem to have WOL and others don't. Even the ones I have that are said to have it cannot be awoken as best I can tell! I have tried an Intel GT1000 with WOL functionality. I can get

Re: [pfSense Support] Wake On LAN - Now Works on 1.2.3 Embedded!

2009-12-11 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Chris Buechler cbuech...@gmail.com To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 8:57 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Wake On LAN On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Somehow I cannot get magic packets to awaken

Re: [pfSense Support] Wake On LAN - Now Works on 1.2.3 Embedded!

2009-12-18 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Chris Weakland chris.weakl...@gmail.com To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:40 AM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Wake On LAN - Now Works on 1.2.3 Embedded! Also if ur nic is a pci or pcie nic the wol cable must be connected to the

Re: [pfSense Support] VLAN Setup

2010-01-09 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Fabian Abplanalp fabian.abplan...@bug.ch To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 1:50 PM Subject: [pfSense Support] VLAN Setup Sawadeekap Question... I have currently a LAN with 2 VLANs (default and VLAN99 for a guest WLAN). Default uses

[pfSense Support] Bottleneck for some reason?

2010-02-05 Thread Tortise
I had a P 500 III CPU with 1G of RAM and now a P 400II with 756M RAM running embedded (512M CF) 1.2.3 and three Intel 1000GT's. One WAN, Two LAN.LAN 2 is LAN1 10.a.b+1.c.d. (/24), both performed much the same. The cable download speed has just been upgraded from 4MBps to 10Mbps however

Re: [pfSense Support] Bottleneck for some reason?

2010-02-05 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Chris Buechler cbuech...@gmail.com To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Bottleneck for some reason? On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I had a P 500 III CPU

Re: [pfSense Support] Bottleneck for some reason?

2010-02-05 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Robert Mortimer rmorti...@bluechiptechnology.co.uk To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 10:20 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Bottleneck for some reason? =Traffic shaping enabled? Yes! OK now disabled, that's doubled it to 8Mbps. As

[pfSense Support] PPTP Connected?

2010-03-30 Thread Tortise
Hi Using 1.2.3-RELEASE (embedded) I have a PPTP server configured and I can connect remotely however I still cannot connect with anything on the LAN. I think the issue is the IP assigned to remote connections is remotely said to be 255.255.255.255 while the LAN is using 255.255.255.0, the IP

Re: [pfSense Support] PPTP Connected?

2010-03-30 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Chris Buechler cbuech...@gmail.com To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] PPTP Connected? On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Hi Using 1.2.3-RELEASE (embedded) I

Re: [pfSense Support] PPTP Connected?

2010-03-31 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Chris Buechler cbuech...@gmail.com To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] PPTP Connected? On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Hi Using 1.2.3-RELEASE (embedded) I have

Re: [pfSense Support] VPN LAN TO LAN

2010-04-02 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Tim Dickson To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 5:36 PM Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] VPN LAN TO LAN Errr.. After all that - forgot to change the TO: . sorry list! Well I for one appreciate your comments and advice cause this is where

Re: [pfSense Support] multi-wan, multi-lan security

2010-08-05 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Chris Buechler cbuech...@gmail.com To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] multi-wan, multi-lan security Doing VLANs properly all on one switch is probably pretty safe if done right (biggest risk in

Re: [pfSense Support] multi-wan, multi-lan security

2010-08-06 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Nathan Eisenberg nat...@atlasnetworks.us To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:50 PM Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] multi-wan, multi-lan security Say I'm not being routed a /24. Say I'm on Comcast and I have a 192.168.0.0/24 LAN. The

Re: [pfSense Support] multi-wan, multi-lan security

2010-08-06 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Chris Buechler cbuech...@gmail.com To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] multi-wan, multi-lan security On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz wrote: - Original Message

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: multi-wan, multi-lan security

2010-08-06 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Dave Warren dave-use...@djwcomputers.com To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 4:51 PM Subject: [pfSense Support] Re: multi-wan, multi-lan security In message 24b7224eff7c4e19b1a43fd4df416...@dp2000xp Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz

Re: [pfSense Support] Re: multi-wan, multi-lan security

2010-08-07 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Dave Warren dave-use...@djwcomputers.com To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 5:58 PM Subject: [pfSense Support] Re: multi-wan, multi-lan security In message b8ab6ffcb532416f938e8d117b87e...@dp2000xp Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz

[pfSense Support] 1.2.3-Release - minor user protection improvement suggestion?

2010-10-15 Thread Tortise
I had a network problem, turns out I had assigned 2 devices to the same IP using the DHCP server. Usually pfSense checks most things and tells me when I stuff up, but on this occasion it did not. I'm pretty sure it checks for duplicate MAC addresses, should it check for duplicate IP's also?

Re: [pfSense Support] 1.2.3-Release - minor user protection improvement suggestion?

2010-10-15 Thread Tortise
- Original Message - From: Tortise tort...@paradise.net.nz To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 3:56 PM Subject: [pfSense Support] 1.2.3-Release - minor user protection improvement suggestion? I had a network problem, turns out I had assigned 2 devices to the same